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Best Safety Precautions To Prevent Mobile Home Fire
Mobile homes have become quite popular in the USA. Not only for living
in them, but also for vacations. Because of this, fighting mobile
home fires became an important safety issue,
especially among manufacturers
of these products. If you consider that each year more than 20,000
of fires occur at mobile homes, then it is something to be worried
about.
Fortunately, some preventive measures exist, like a fire hydrant;
mobile homes can beneficiate a lot from it.
What Are The Main Causes Of Mobile Fires?
Entire families enjoy long vacations traveling around the country
in their mobile homes. Maybe the emotion doesn’t let them think
more about security and disregard fire as an important issue. They
may feel that a fire extinguisher is enough. Unfortunately, it isn’t.
For starters, many mobile homes are quite old, sometimes more than
a decade. As time goes by, vibrations will start compromising the
wiring, cutting through the insulation and generating a risk scenario.
If these wires are left without protection, a spark could find its
way to some flammable material, starting a fire.
Resistance connections can also be a source of trouble. If left
without maintenance, this important part of the wiring will start
to deteriorate and cause an incident without notice.
Additionally, since the space inside a mobile home is quite limited,
the inadequate storage of combustibles or flammable material could
be the cause of a tragedy. Any kind of fuel should be adequately
stored and protected, avoiding its contact with any source of heat,
like heaters.
What Precautions Can Be Taken?
There are a lot of things that can be done to protect you and your
family from a fire break inside your mobile home. They can be resumed
to ten:
Wiring
Maintain adequately your electric connections. Do not assume that
they are ok. Check them and make sure that all the wiring is protected
by insulation. If you don’t know how to do it, pay the services
of an expert who can determine if you are having any losses. Additionally,
do not overload your sockets with inadequate connections. There is
a limit to the amount of things that you can connect to the electrical
system of a mobile home. That includes extensions. Consult your manufacturer’s
manual for this issue.
Flammables
Store flammables inside adequate containers, away from any heat source.
But, if you can, avoid them entirely. Although it may be quite impossible
to do it, at least store the minimum amount possible inside your mobile
home. After all, you will find plenty of places to buy it once it
is consumed.
One good rule of thumb while you are stationed and not traveling
is to store the flammable material outside the mobile home (but
not under it). That way, if anything happens, it will not compromise
your property.
