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Approximately1.3 million holiday fires Play yourself at the USS each year, claiming more than 3,500 lives and injuring more than 16,000 people. And while most of the fires of the house starts in the kitchen, any room with a source of heat in the artiqueYour basement-Is the next most likely space in which AThe fire will start. If you want to prevent ahousefire, Read it to find out what experts say you should look in your basement to stay safe.

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You can clean the plush trap of your dryer regularly, but if you do not clean your winds too, you could prepare for serious damage to your home.

"If you have a lot of dry and dry whey in your mouths of dryer vents and the dryer is overheat, you can get a lightning light," saysChuck Roydhouse, a former professional firefighter, President of the Institute of Security of the America's Bitch (CSIA) and the owner ofClean slate Anne Aruundel County. It recommends obtaining your dryer winds cleaned by an authorized technician on a regular basis.

In addition, if your dryer vent is composed of something other than metal, it is in your interest to have replaced it as soon as possible, because if you do not do it, you can prepare for a fire .

"If the stuffed stuff lights up and you have a flash fire inside the flexible tube that leads dryer to the hard hose ventilation system through the wall or ceiling, if it is not metal, It will deterish very quickly, "says Roydhouse.

And you can not say if a vent is metal just based on its silver color. "If your dryer vent is coated with PVC - resembling the white accordion covers that you use to evacuate the bathroom exhaust - which is not evaluated for dryer vents. And Mylar, the Aluminum sheet at the appearance of the dryer that you often see, melt almost immediately in a flash fire. "

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And if your basement devices are connected to extensions rather than directly in outlets, you can have a fire at your hands.

"Many basements will have washers, hairdryers and other large devices. Be sure to plug them into a wall outlet and not an extension cord," says the fire safety expertRay brosnan ofBrosnan Property Solutions. "These extensions can overheat and overload, which can in turn lead to a fire in seconds."

Keeping things that criticize, like paper or cardboard, near your basement ducts or appliances could spell problems in your future.

"You want to make sure that you have the good fuel clearance, which means that you do not store Christmas trees or boxes near one of the ducts or piping from the oven or boiler", Declares Roydhouse. "If combustible items are kept nearby, they could heat and catch fire."

Although you can think that you hardly think of storing your gas mower or gas leaves fan in your basement, it could do so to put everyone in your household in danger.

"You do not want to store fuel source or fuel equipment in the basement, because you have wasting gases that happens as it evaporates," says Roydhouse.

"Once it finds a source of ignition - like a water heater, a furnace, a spark of a light switch - you can have a fire or explosion," says Roydhouse.

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