Fire safety guidebook

Overview

Fire safety is a shared responsibility to help keep families and homes secure. This guidebook provides essential tips and information to protect residents and property from fire and carbon monoxide (CO).

The most effective ways to ensure fire safety in the home are to:

• prevent fires from starting through careful habits in the kitchen and throughout the home
• install smoke alarms on every storey of your home and outside all sleeping areas
• install CO alarms on every storey of your home and outside all sleeping areas if your home contains a fuel-burning appliance, a fireplace, an attached garage, or is served by a forced-air fuel burning appliance not contained within the building
• create and practice a home fire escape plan so every person in the household knows how to react when an alarm sounds
• consider installing residential sprinklers when building a new home or doing extensive renovations

Additional resources

For additional materials and resources not covered in this guidebook, please contact the following sections of the Office of the Fire Marshal: