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Grilling Safety Tips

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    Demo shows dangers of grill fires

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John -- -- is here with underwriters laboratory this is your facility.

That's a girl it's way too close of the -- is typically capital -- 8000 times a year holes fires occur because of grilling incidents so it does happen a lot more to.

Too often -- no you can imagine we need to quickly explain that you folks do this all the time you're testing how things for a how quickly things burn all the time -- -- a safety science company and we do a lot of research so this is something that we do routinely.

Right now we've got to gorilla to -- and it's way too close to the host number one grilling temples all was roll up doors secondly keep it away from your garage your carport.

And your house what's a safe distance from the house or any other thing that you don't want -- while sometimes it's very difficult to estimate that but ten feet is a good distance.

But -- let's make sure that you keep it a good distance away from anything that's combustible too.

It could be a flowers that could be other things that could catch fire now.

It's a really important it also if you get a girl going -- somebody's out there watching it because a lot of times you put it on you walk away going answer the phone go fix something else in the house.

You're working on some other side dish.

You're walking away from a lot Steve is another very good point unattended cooking is a leading cause of home fires -- the United States from inside cooking as well as outside cooking.

So keeping an eye on it is something we always say but it's very difficult to do your your grilling outside wanna run inside and get some more food -- the salad or whatever it might be for the festivities.

The fact is you can't watch it all the time but just know that you've got -- -- going there and you're gonna flare up like you're seeing right now.

That can be very very dangerous and deadly quickly how do you put it out if it starts up like this -- -- the best thing you can do is make sure that you put the lid on a -- if you can get close to it.

If it's gone this far with our -- is now starting to catch on fire.

You wanna get everybody out and call 911 balls are professionals who know how to do the right thing.

If it's small contained put the lid on and make sure you turn the -- -- the -- -- And at the grill away from the halls terrific and this is just three minutes since that -- park they're burning like it is.

Real important safety first -- great holiday weekend comes sector.

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