https://spffafightingburns.org/ Practical guidance on fire prevention, home safety and burn care: how home fires start, how to stop them, and how burns are treated and heal. en-us Sat, 19 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://spffafightingburns.org/prevention/child-scald-and-burn-risks-at-home/https://spffafightingburns.org/prevention/child-scald-and-burn-risks-at-home/Sat, 19 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMTFire PreventionWhere child burns happen at home, what a parent can change this week, and how local data guides prevention programmes to the highest risk homes. https://spffafightingburns.org/prevention/smoke-alarms-testing-batteries-ten-year-rule/https://spffafightingburns.org/prevention/smoke-alarms-testing-batteries-ten-year-rule/Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMTFire PreventionHow a smoke alarm fails, what the test button proves, and the checks that keep a household alarm working through its ten year life. https://spffafightingburns.org/burns/a-child-s-scald-first-aid-in-twenty-minutes/https://spffafightingburns.org/burns/a-child-s-scald-first-aid-in-twenty-minutes/Mon, 14 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMTBurn Care and RecoveryCool 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. https://spffafightingburns.org/home-safety/escape-plan-when-stairs-are-out-of-reach/https://spffafightingburns.org/home-safety/escape-plan-when-stairs-are-out-of-reach/Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMTHome SafetyHow 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. https://spffafightingburns.org/home-safety/room-by-room-home-safety-failures-that-repeat/https://spffafightingburns.org/home-safety/room-by-room-home-safety-failures-that-repeat/Mon, 07 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMTHome SafetyA room by room home safety check for the kitchen, hallway, garage and bedroom, and the same failures that turn up in household after household. https://spffafightingburns.org/community/what-a-charity-ride-pays-for-in-burn-care/https://spffafightingburns.org/community/what-a-charity-ride-pays-for-in-burn-care/Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMTFirefighter CommunityFundraising 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. https://spffafightingburns.org/prevention/kitchen-fires-the-first-five-minutes/https://spffafightingburns.org/prevention/kitchen-fires-the-first-five-minutes/Tue, 01 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMTFire PreventionWhat 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. https://spffafightingburns.org/prevention/space-heaters-and-the-three-foot-rule/https://spffafightingburns.org/prevention/space-heaters-and-the-three-foot-rule/Sat, 29 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMTFire PreventionThe three-foot rule covers what a space heater must stay away from, why outlets matter, and which extension cord is safe to use. https://spffafightingburns.org/burns/how-a-burn-heals-week-by-week/https://spffafightingburns.org/burns/how-a-burn-heals-week-by-week/Wed, 26 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMTBurn Care and RecoveryA week by week look at how skin heals after a burn, from the weeping first days through granulation, closure and the months of remodeling. https://spffafightingburns.org/burns/scald-contact-and-flame-burns-different-first-aid/https://spffafightingburns.org/burns/scald-contact-and-flame-burns-different-first-aid/Sun, 23 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMTBurn Care and RecoveryA scald keeps burning after the spill because hot liquid stays on skin. Contact and flame burns need different first aid. What to do in the first minutes. https://spffafightingburns.org/burns/burn-center-referral-what-families-face/https://spffafightingburns.org/burns/burn-center-referral-what-families-face/Thu, 20 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMTBurn Care and RecoveryWhich burns trigger a burn center referral, what the first 48 hours look like, and what a family should bring and ask during transport and the first days. https://spffafightingburns.org/home-safety/safety-walk-through-for-a-community-hall/https://spffafightingburns.org/home-safety/safety-walk-through-for-a-community-hall/Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMTHome SafetyA room by room safety walk-through for a community hall: what to check first in a building you did not wire, from exits and cords to extinguishers. https://spffafightingburns.org/community/what-a-volunteer-fire-company-asks-of-its-town/https://spffafightingburns.org/community/what-a-volunteer-fire-company-asks-of-its-town/Fri, 14 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMTFirefighter CommunityA volunteer fire company asks its town for training nights, retention and a real budget. Here is what the hours cost and what the money buys. https://spffafightingburns.org/community/burn-camps-a-week-among-survivors/https://spffafightingburns.org/community/burn-camps-a-week-among-survivors/Tue, 11 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMTFirefighter CommunityBurn camps gather children and adults who have survived burns for a week of activities, peer support and recovery work, run by fire service and hospital groups.