- Overview
- Fire Safety At Home
- Inside The Home
- - Alcohol
- - Bedtime Checks
- - Candles, Lights And Decorations
- - Carbon Monoxide
- - Cooking Safely
- - Drugs
- - Electrical Safety
- - Escape Plans
- - Independent Living
- - Medicine
- - Oxygen Therapy
- - Smoke Alarms
- - Smoking
- Outside The Home
- - Barbecue
- - Bonfires
- - Camping And Caravanning
- - Fireworks
- If You Have A Fire
- - After The Fire
- Community Fire Safety
- Business Fire Safety
Being drunk can make you uncoordinated, sleepy or uninhibited. Sometimes you may be more likely to put yourself and your family at risk by causing a fire from cooking or smoking. You may also sleep through a smoke alarm if you have drunk too much alcohol. Alcohol can also be responsible for causing serious road traffic collisions, if an intoxicated person attempts to drive or steps out into the road.
- Buy food on the way back from the pub, rather than attempting to cook when you get home.
- Never drink and drive and take care if walking home.
- Make sure all cigarettes are properly put out before you go to sleep.
- Have a working smoke alarm installed, as this will greatly increase the chances of escaping if fire breaks out in the home.
- Call 0800 1691125 to arrange a free home fire safety check, including free fitting of smoke alarms and help to plan an escape route
- Check your smoke alarms using the test facility once a week.