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​Follow these heating safety tips to help keep your home fire safe this winter:

• ​​Keep anything that can burn at least 3 feet from your fi replace or wood stove.
  
• Do not burn paper in your fireplace or wood stove.
  
• Put the fire out before you go to sleep or leave your home.
  
• Have your chimney inspected and cleaned each year by a professional.
  
• Put ashes in a metal container with a lid. Place ​the container outside at least 10 feet from your home.​
  

Fireplace safety

• Keep a glass or metal screen in front of your fireplace to prevent embers or sparks from jumping out.
• Make sure fireplace “on” switches and remote controls are out of the reach of children.

Wood stove safety

• Make sure your wood stove has been tested by a qualifi ed testing laboratory.
• Keep the doors of your wood stove closed unless loading or stoking the live fire.

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