The employees of the Miory District Department for Emergency Situations remind you of fire safety rules when smoking!

It is worth reminding about fire safety rules when smoking.

It is often observed that individuals, when lighting up, throw matches and cigarette butts anywhere, smoke in prohibited areas, and place cigarette butts on wooden objects, near materials that can ignite at the slightest contact with fire.

A cigarette butt thrown on sawdust causes it to smolder. A smoldering cigarette butt can also cause paper, hay, or straw to ignite. It follows from this that fires caused by an unextinguished cigarette are more common than it might seem at first glance.

Special attention should be paid to young smokers. Imitating adults, children smoke, choosing the most secluded places for it. When adults appear, they try to hide their misconduct, throw away an unextinguished cigarette, provoking a fire.

Cigarette butts thrown from balconies or windows can also provoke a fire by landing on balconies or loggias of lower floors, where old things, containers with combustible and flammable liquids are often stored. A cigarette butt can enter an apartment through an open window, where conditions for combustion development can be most favorable.

When smoking, observe the following fire safety rules:
1. Smoke only in designated smoking areas.
2. Do not smoke lying in bed.
3. Do not forget to extinguish your cigarette after smoking.
4. Do not smoke near flammable materials.
5. Do not throw unextinguished cigarette butts from upper-floor balconies, into garbage chutes, or trash cans.