Pets Playing With Fire in North Barrington?

11/2/2020 (Permalink)

When your pet causes fire damage in Schaumburg, call us!

The Chicago Fire

Although it has never been proven, many people attribute the starting of the Chicago Fire of 1871 to Mrs. O’Leary’s family cow knocking over a lighted lantern. We pet owners love our furry friends, but did you know that these little rascals are responsible for causing 750 home fires each year in the United States? According to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), pets and wild animals are responsible for starting fires by exposure to:

• Cooking equipment
• Fireplaces
• Chimneys
• Space heaters
• Lamps
• Bulbs
• Wiring
• Candles

SERVPRO® of Barrington/North Schaumburg offers some safety tips to North Barrington from the NFPA to help prevent your pets from starting a fire at home:

• Pets may bump into, turn on, or knock over cooking equipment so keep them away from stoves and countertops.
• Keep pets away from candles, lamps, and space heaters.
• Use a heat-tempered glass screen on a fireplace and keep it in place.
• Keep pets away from chimney’s outside vents.
• Create a “pet-free zone” of at least three feet away from the fireplace.
• Use battery-operated, flameless candles.
• Keep pets away from electrical cords that they might want to chew.
• Make sure your pets are included in your emergency evacuation plan.

Call Us Today!

North Barrington residents count on  SERVPRO® of Barrington/North Schaumburg to respond to fire damage emergencies 24 hours a day. Our highly trained fire restoration technicians will restore your fire damage, “Like it never even happened.” Call us at 847-526-0090.

SERVPRO of Barrington/North Schaumburg is Independently Owned and Operated.