With an aim to create awareness among school students about fire safety and security, the State Fire and Emergency Services Department has come up with a booklet containing colourful pictorial illustrations regarding precautionary measures.
According to the Fire and Emergency Services Minister, awareness is the key to avoid incidents of fire as well as fighting them. So if people follow certain safety measures, they can keep themselves protected.
He said the government believes that awareness through children can create wonders when it comes to maintenance of safety measures to check fires, and hence it has published this booklet.
The booklet starts with a picture of a mother educating her children about the steps that should be taken if a fire suddenly breaks out in a building.
It will soon start distributing these attractive booklets among school and college students and they will, in turn, be encouraged to take up the responsibility of educating their family members about these steps.
Switching off all electric lights and gadgets, opening up all doors and windows of the house, then vacating the building using the staircase, preferably covering the face and nose with a piece of cloth, are among the few steps that should be followed.
The book mention rules to be followed in the kitchen like using cooking gas carefully, having proper implements and not just a piece of cloth for taking down something hot from the oven, opening the doors and windows immediately if there is any gaseous smell, avoiding pouring kerosene when the stove is in burning condition, etc.
