Winter home safety

Tips from North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue to help stay safe and warm this winter

At Home

Power cuts and loss of utilities are more likely to happen in adverse weather conditions, so it is important to prepare for this too, here are some simple tips to do this:

• Keep a torch and spare batteries at home
• Have blankets and warm clothing to hand
• Keep your mobile phone charged and any battery packs you may have
• Turn off any appliances which should not be left unattended when switched on, such as cookers and microwaves – you never know when then power may be switched back on
• Some people may wish to leave a light switched on so they know when the power has come back on
• Check on any elderly or vulnerable neighbours or relatives

Some further links which you may find helpful:

• Safely heating your home: Heating your home – North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service (northyorksfire.gov.uk)
• Be Safe, Feel Safe, guidance to keeping you safe this winter: Be Safe, Feel Safe – guidance to help keep you safe this winter – Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner North Yorkshire (northyorkshire-pfcc.gov.uk)
• Traffic England: Welcome to National Highways (trafficengland.com)
• National Rail: National Rail Enquiries – Latest Travel
• The Met Office: Weather and climate change – Met Office

Please stay warm, stay safe and remember, in the nicest possible way, we hope you don’t need us, but if you do, we are only one call away.