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Stay merry and bright with these holiday and winter safety tips
By Jim Bennett
The holiday season is just
around the corner and for those
celebrating Thanksgiving, we
would like to provide a couple of
important reminders to keep you
and your family healthy and safe.
Tips for safely preparing meals
Be sure to sanitize anything
that may have come in contact
with raw turkey.
Foodborne illness can easily be
transferred between raw turkey
and other food items.
This includes your hands as
well. Be sure to wash them thoroughly with soap and water after
touching raw turkey.
A deep-fried turkey certainly is
delectable, but their preparation
can put you and your home at
great risk.
Placing a semi-frozen turkey
into a vat of superheated oil that's
too full can cause a spillover and
a serious fire of burning cooking
oil.
Be sure your turkey is fully defrosted, and the level of oil is low
enough so as not to spill over the
edges once the turkey is put in.
We include the link from the
National Fire Protection Association each year as a reminder to
how serious the danger is when
the frying is done incorrectly: https://www.nfpa.org/educa
tion-and-research/home-firesafety/thanksgiving
November is the time to make a checklist to get ready for winter. Remember to turn your clocks back, review meal preparation
tips, make sure your car is ready for winter driving and replace the batteries in your smoke detectors.
that many will be traveling in
the dark from work to home.
Darkness also means temperatures dropping and no high
desert sun to keep roadways
from freezing.
Use extra caution on your
trip home in the dark and expect roadways – at times – to
be freezing up.
Check smoke alarms and
carbon monoxide detectors
The time change is also
the time to check our smoke
alarms in our homes.
Most modern smoke alarms
have long-term batteries (lasting up to 10 years); however,
you should still be testing
them each month and replace
as you near the 10-year mark.
For alarms that do not have
Clocks fall back
a long-term battery, this is the
At 2 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 2 is time to replace those batteries
when our clocks fall back an hour. and then test to make sure
With darkness settling in ear- they were installed correctly.
lier in the workday, it will mean
Do you have a carbon mon-
SSD Meeting
continued from page 30
Other business
–The meeting adjourned at
2:14 p.m.
–The next regular meeting
of the Sunriver Service District
Managing Board is scheduled for
1 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 20.
–Approved meeting minutes
are posted, as available, to www.
sunriversdor.gov/ssd-boardmeetings
Something
missing?
oxide alarm in your home? This
is different than the smoke
detector/alarm as it detects the
byproduct of carbon fuels (such
as natural gas and gasoline).
These alarms should be placed
on each level of your home and
outside each sleeping area.
Testing and battery replacement for these is the same as
smoke alarms.
There are some alarms that
have both smoke and carbon
monoxide detection capabilities.
Don’t assume you have one of
them, confirm so that you are
protected from both of these
dangerous situations.
November is likely when we
will see snow events beginning
can put even the most prepared
car into a slide.
Prepare your vehicle with the
materials needed in case you get
stuck and need to get out or
simply wait for someone.
These include a small shovel,
warm blankets or clothing,
flashlight, ice scraper, a way to
charge your cellphone, lighted
or reflective warning triangles
and snacks and water in the
event you are stuck for an extended period.
Be safe, enjoy the beginning
of the holidays and be prepared
for the likelihood of some winter driving.
–Jim Bennett is the public information officer for the Sunriver
Fire Department.
to ramp up and it is important
that your vehicle is prepared.
Snow or studded tires will aid
you in your driving to give you
that extra grip on those slippery
roadways as well as chains when
needed.
Winter driving tips
There are always countless
examples where there is an
over-reliance on our wheels,
studs and four-wheel drive,
thinking we're immune to the
effects of weather on the roads.
You will still need to use
extra caution which includes
keeping your speed moderated
for conditions and allowing
long stopping distances versus
a heavy and fast braking which
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