Winter Driving in Anchorage: What to Keep in the Car
Dark afternoons, icy roads and cold starts. A simple car kit for Anchorage winters, from tire pressure to a backup battery.
A 10-Minute Home Fire Safety Checklist
Home fires are more common in the colder months, when heaters, furnaces and candles are in use. This quick checklist covers the essentials.
1. Test every alarm
Press the test button on each smoke and carbon monoxide alarm. Replace batteries as needed, and replace alarms that are more than 10 years old.
2. Check your extinguisher
Make sure the gauge is in the green and everyone knows where it is. Keep one near the kitchen.
3. Keep a fire blanket in the kitchen
A fire blanket can smother a small pan fire. Never use water on a grease fire.
4. Plan two ways out
Every bedroom should have two exits. For upstairs rooms, an escape ladder can be the second way out.
Five more quick checks
- Space heaters three feet from anything that burns.
- No overloaded power strips.
- Dryer lint filter cleaned.
- Candles never left unattended.
- A family meeting spot outside.
