With a little help from your friendly Insurance Company, your Thanksgiving Day does not have to mean that you have to be stuffed along with the turkey! Our tips can let you satisfy your craving for all your traditional favorites and still enjoy a guilt-free feast. We have six simple and helpful tips to avoid …
Fireplace Safety Tips for you and your Family
Courtesy of the U.S. Fire Administration, more than one-third of Americans use fireplaces, wood stoves and other fuel-fired appliances as primary heat sources in their homes. Unfortunately, many people are unaware of the fire risks when heating with wood and solid fuels. Almost a third of residential home fires are caused by heating fires in …
Gas Fireplace Safety Maintenance Tips
Gas fireplaces require routine maintenance and service to ensure maximum efficiency and safety. The best person to perform the service is a specialty retailer who is trained in maintaining gas fireplaces. Here are a couple of things you can look into before or with the maintenance worker: Clean and adjust the glowing embers and logs …
Let’s learn from our Past Hurricanes
Yorkers railed Sunday against a utility that has lagged behind others in restoring power two weeks after the superstorm that socked the region, criticizing its slow pace as well as a dearth of information. At least 150,000 people in New York and New Jersey remained without power Sunday, including tens of thousands of homes and …
Hurricane Sandy’s Total Devastation
Hurricane Sandy – also known as the Superstorm – landed last week, on October 29th around 10:30 p.m. The destruction left behind stretched over several hundred miles and is said to be one of the worst storms to hit the eastern coast. To help portray the devastation Hurricane Sandy wrought, here are some figures the …
Preparedness Pays Off!
Hurricane season is almost over, but as we’ve learned this past month, maybe nature is saving the worst for last. In three of our previous blogs, Hurricane Awareness Help, Be Financially Prepared for Hurricane Season, and Home Inventory Checklist, we talked about how to prepare your home and your life should to worst hit your …
Protection and Prevention
In one of our previous blogs, we discussed the dangers of Wildfires, and in other how firefighters actually use fire to fight fire. Wildfire prevention programs around the world may use techniques described in these blogs. Prescribed or controlled burns are the fires firefighters make to burn the fuel source around a wildfire. Wildland fire …
Fun Alternatives on a Fang-tastic Night!
The rules seem to change on Halloween. “Don’t take candy from strangers” suddenly becomes into who can score the most candy from the most houses during one night. If you are wary about letting your little ones out (and the same can be said for the big ones too) then check out the links for …
6 Simple Jack-o-Lantern Safety Steps
Pumpkin carving is an activity that needs to be approached with caution, especially if you’re planning to include the kids. Remember, your goal is to carve the pumpkin and not yourself! We want to help prevent a sprint for the first aid kit or the emergency room by offering these tips. Also, check out our …
Fire and its benefits
Congratulations Texan Insurance, and fans, this is the 200th blog!! We have had many blogs posted to honor firefighters during our Fire Station Contest. From how firefighters combat fires, what different hoses on the fire truck are for, and even traveling out to sea to learn how the NAVY fights fires in the middle of …
