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Fighting Burns

Fighting Burns is an editorial desk on fire prevention, home safety and burn care. It explains how a home fire starts, the checks and habits that keep one from starting, the first minutes after a burn, and how skin heals. Four sections hold the work: Fire Prevention, Burn Care and Recovery, Home Safety, and the Firefighter Community.

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14
Divisions
4
Sources
21
First document
A kitchen counter at eye level in the late afternoon, a pot handle turned toward the wall on a back burner, a locked cabinet above, and a small child's step stool pushed to the side.
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Front document  Division 01  Fire Prevention

Child Scald and Burn Risks at Home

Where child burns happen at home, what a parent can change this week, and how local data guides prevention programmes to the highest risk homes.

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A kitchen sink with the tap running over a small child's hand, an adult's forearm steadying the child's wrist, a folded towel on the counter and a pot pushed to the back burner, soft daylight from a window.

Division 02  Burn Care and Recovery

A Child's Scald: First Aid in Twenty Minutes

Cool running water for twenty minutes is the first move on a child's scald. What to skip, when to call 911, and where new parents find help.

HS-001

A ground floor bedroom at night, a folded walker beside the bed, a flashlight taped to the frame, a night light glowing in the hallway beyond the open door.

Division 03  Home Safety

Escape Plan When Stairs Are Out of Reach

How to plan a ground floor escape route for a resident with limited mobility, what to keep within reach, and how to drill it with the whole household.

HS-002

A kitchen counter at dusk with a folded dish towel resting against the base of an electric coil burner, a flashlight and a printed checklist on the counter beside a coffee mug, warm overhead light, medium shot from the doorway.

Division 03  Home Safety

Room by Room: Home Safety Failures That Repeat

A room by room home safety check for the kitchen, hallway, garage and bedroom, and the same failures that turn up in household after household.

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A row of sealed ten year smoke alarms on a fire station workbench, still in their boxes, beside a clipboard with an installation list, lit by overhead garage light, shot from a slight angle.

Division 04  Firefighter Community

What a Charity Ride Pays For in Burn Care

Fundraising rides route money to burn camps, family support and prevention work. Here is how the money moves and what a local fire company does with it.

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A home kitchen stovetop at night, a metal lid resting on a pan of oil, burner off, overhead light casting a hard shadow across the counter.

Division 01  Fire Prevention

Kitchen Fires: The First Five Minutes

What ignites first in a kitchen fire, when a lid beats an extinguisher, when to leave, and how to keep the same pan from catching again.

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A small electric space heater on a bare hardwood floor in a living room, its grille glowing faintly, with an empty three-foot arc of floor around it and a heavy gray extension cord coiled neatly beside a wall outlet, lit by low afternoon window light.

Division 01  Fire Prevention

Space Heaters and the Three-Foot Rule

The three-foot rule covers what a space heater must stay away from, why outlets matter, and which extension cord is safe to use.

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The divisions of the portal

each division takes the room of its documents

Fire Prevention

How home fires start, and the habits, alarms and routine checks that keep them from starting.

Documents
4
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6

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Burn Care and Recovery

What happens to skin in a burn, how first aid and clinical treatment work, and how recovery unfolds over weeks and months.

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4
Latest document
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6

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Home Safety

Room by room checks, escape plans and child safety measures that protect a household.

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3
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5

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Firefighter Community

The people who answer the call: crews, training, burn camps and the programmes that serve a community.

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3
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7

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Named evidence

The sources named in the documents

Sources
21
Domains
12

Each source is cited by at least one document; the file reference says which.

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Desks we read

Desks we keep in touch with, each one checked and read before it is listed here.

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family support services

Division 01  Fire Prevention

family support services

Households that need help beyond a safety visit often need it from a family service desk. That work sits outside a fire company, and the desk that explains it here is worth reading.

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reading a food label

Division 01  Fire Prevention

reading a food label

Labels decide what reaches a plate in a household with an allergy, and the same careful reading applies to a safety notice on a product. This desk explains the labels in plain language.

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community life in a small town

Division 01  Fire Prevention

community life in a small town

A fire company and a congregation often serve the same streets. This desk writes about the everyday life of a small community, its people and the work they share.