0. Kitchen Fire Safety

1. What we will learn today
We will learn about kitchen fire safety.
Cooking is the number one cause of fires and fire related deaths and injuries in the United States. Since you are at the age where you cook more for yourself, it is important to learn about fire safety in your kitchen.

2. We have already learned that:
There are different types of burns and different degrees of burns

3. Do you remember what the different degrees of burns are?
First - causes redness of the skin
Second - cause red, blistered skin
Third - worst burn and causes white or charred skin
What are the six different types of burns?

4. Scald

5. Flame

6. Electrical

7. Sun

8. Contact

9. Chemical

10. Which type of burns do you think would occur most often in the kitchen?
Scald
Contact

11. Scald
burns that are caused by hot water, steam, or food or liquids from microwaves

12. Contact
burns that result from touching hot surfaces such as ovens, toasters, or coffee pots

13. Food and liquids from microwaves can also cause scald and contact burns

14. What are some of the ways you can avoid getting these kinds of burns?
Stay out of the kitchen when mom or dad is cooking
if you have little brothers or sisters you can watch them while mom or dad is cooking in the kitchen
Never reach for anything on the stove or in the oven
you could pull a pan full of hot liquid or food over on yourself or someone else
Don’t carry hot liquids around the kitchen
you could spill them on someone or even yourself

15. What are some of the ways you can avoid getting these kinds of burns?
Don’t store anything in cupboards above the stove
reaching over the stove or climbing on it to reach something could cause a very serious burn injury
keep little kids from climbing up to get something
Appliance cords should be kept rolled up and not dangling over the edge of the counter
little kids could pull an appliance down on themselves or someone else

16. What are some of the ways you can avoid getting these kinds of burns?
Never store grease or oil around a stove or in the oven
grease and oil very easily catch on fire

17. If you do get burned, remember to:
Cool the burned area with cool water for at least 10 minutes
Tell an adult right away
Seek medical treatment, if necessary
Never put butter or ice on your burn
the doctor will give you something if needed

18. If a fire starts in your kitchen:
Warn others of the fire
Get out and stay out
Go to your meeting place outside
Call once you are outside from a cell phone or a neighbors house

19. Remember - kitchen fires and injuries are
preventable with good fire safety practices