When you Change Your Clocks Change Your Batteries!
With the Daylight Saving Time is ending this weekend, its time to check your smoke alarms and replace their batteries.
Every year people who die in home fires could have been warned it they had properly maintained their smoke alarms.‚ According to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) about two-thirds of home fire deaths result from fires in homes with no smoke alarms or no working smoke alarms and working smoke alarms cut the chance of dying in a fire in half.
So what can you do to keep your family safe?
- Put new batteries in your alarms when you change your clocks.
- Replace old alarms (more than 10 years old) with new Dual Sensor Smoke Alarms*
- In new alarm install 9v lithium batteries to get about 10 years on a single battery (which is the life of the alarm.)
- Check your smoke alarms every month.
- Practice a home escape plan.
- Smoke alarms should be installed in every room where an occupant sleeps, outside every sleeping area and on each level of the home, including the basement. Make sure everyone can hear the alarm and knows what it sounds like.
- For the best protection, equip your home with a combination of ionization and photoelectric smoke alarms or dual-sensor alarms. Interconnect the alarms so that when one sounds, they all sound.
- Dust or vacuum smoke alarms whenever the battery is changed. Follow the manufacturers instructions for cleaning. The instructions are included in the package or can be found on the internet.
- Devise a fire escape plan with two ways out of every room and a common outside meeting place. Be sure to practice the plan with all who live in the home, including children.
- When a smoke alarm sounds, get out of the home immediately, closing doors behind you. Go to your pre-planned meeting place and call 9-1-1.
* So what is in a Dual Sensor Smoke Alarm? There are two types of sensors:
- Ionization smoke detection is generally more responsive to flaming fires.
How they work: Ionization-type smoke alarms have a small amount of radioactive material between two electrically charged plates, which ionizes the air and causes current to flow between the plates. When smoke enters the chamber, it disrupts the flow of ions, thus reducing the flow of current and activating the alarm. - Photoelectric‚ smoke detection is generally more responsive to fires that begin with a long period of smoldering (called smoldering fires).
How they work: Photoelectric-type alarms aim a light source into a sensing chamber at an angle away from the sensor. Smoke enters the chamber, reflecting light onto the light sensor; triggering the alarm.
For more information contact the Kingsport Fire Marshals Office at 423-229-9440
KINGSPORT – Halloween is a fun, and spooky, time of year for kids. The Kingsport Fire Department and the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) want to make trick-or-treating safe for your little monsters with a few easy safety tips.
Halloween Trick-or-Treating Safety Tips:
Children should always go trick-or-treating with a responsible adult.
If you are not going trick-or-treating with your children, make sure you know what streets they will be visiting.
Provide a cell phone so they can check in with you.
Provide children with flashlights to carry or use glow sticks as part of their costume.
Remind children to stay together as a group and walk from house to house.
Make trick-or-treating a no running game so they will not fall ‚ while having fun.
Review how to cross a street with your child. Look left, right and left again to be sure no cars are approaching before crossing the street.
Decide the time your children will go out trick-or-treating and what time they will return home.
Make a rule that children will not eat any treat until it has been brought home and examined by a grown-up.
Halloween Fire Safety:
When choosing a costume, stay away from billowing or long trailing fabric. If your child is wearing a mask, make sure the eye holes are large enough so they can see out.
Dried flowers, cornstalks and crepe paper are highly flammable. Keep these and other decorations well away from all open flames and heat sources, including light bulbs, and heaters.
It is safest to use a flashlight or battery-operated candle in a jack-o-lantern. If you use a real candle, use extreme caution. Make sure children are watched at all times when candles are lit.
When lighting candles inside jack-o-lanterns, use long, fireplace style matches or a utility lighter.
Be sure to place lit pumpkins well away from anything that can burn and far enough out of way of trick-or-treaters, doorsteps, walkways and yards.
Remember to keep exits clear of decorations, so nothing blocks escape routes.
Tell children to stay away from open flames.
Be sure they know how to stop, drop and roll if their clothing catches fire. (Have them practice, stopping immediately, dropping to the ground, covering their face with hands, and rolling over and over to put the flames out.)
Use battery operated lights as alternatives to candles or torch lights when decorating walkways and yards. They are much safer for trick-or-treaters, whose costumes may brush against the lighting.
If your children are going to Halloween parties at others homes, have them look for ways out of the home and plan how they would get out in an emergency.
Source www.nfpa.org/education & www.sparky.org
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Kingsport Police Department
200 Shelby Street • Kingsport, TN 37660 ThomasMPatton • 423-229-9433 (Desk) • 423-224-2786 (FAX) |
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| NEWS RELEASE | |||
| SUBJECT: | K.P.D. Detectives Attempting to Identify Suspect in Identity Theft/Credit Card Fraud Case | ||
| DATE: | October 31, 2014 | ||
| GENERAL NARRATIVE |
| On August 31, 2014 at approximately 4:30 PM, a suspect used a credit card to make a purchase of $479.97 at Wal-Mart, located at 3200 Fort Henry Drive in Kingsport. The account for the credit card that was used was in the name of a Knoxville, TN resident who was completely unaware of the account’s existence. It is apparent that the suspect at Wal-Mart has stolen the victim’s identity in opening the account.
Several other transactions have been made using this credit card across the Northeast Tennessee region in Gray, Boones Creek, Johnson City, and Piney Flats. Additional online purchase were made using this credit card, with the items purchased allegedly being delivered to a vacant house on Conway Street in Kingsport. Further investigation has revealed that the suspect may have also opened a PayPal account in the victim’s name. An overhead photo of the suspect, in the process of making his purchase at Wal-Mart, is included in this release. He appears to be a small framed, thin, white male, possibly in his 20s, with short dark hair and glasses. Anyone who recognizes this individual is asked to contact detectives in the K.P.D. Criminal Investigations Division at 423-229-9429 or call Kingsport Central Dispatch at 423-246-9111. Alternatively, if an individual who is able to supply information related to this or any other case wishes not to be identified, tips can be submitted anonymously via online “Citizen Feedback” forms available at the following link: |
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Thomas M. Patton, Public Information Officer
Kingsport Police Department Professional Standards Unit |
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Kingsport Police Department
200 Shelby Street • Kingsport, TN 37660 ThomasMPatton • 423-229-9433 (Desk) • 423-224-2786 (FAX) |
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| NEWS RELEASE | |||
| SUBJECT: | K.P.D. Detectives Attempting to Identify Suspect in Identity Theft/Credit Card Fraud Case | ||
| DATE: | October 31, 2014 | ||
| GENERAL NARRATIVE |
| On August 31, 2014 at approximately 4:30 PM, a suspect used a credit card to make a purchase of $479.97 at Wal-Mart, located at 3200 Fort Henry Drive in Kingsport. The account for the credit card that was used was in the name of a Knoxville, TN resident who was completely unaware of the account’s existence. It is apparent that the suspect at Wal-Mart has stolen the victim’s identity in opening the account.
Several other transactions have been made using this credit card across the Northeast Tennessee region in Gray, Boones Creek, Johnson City, and Piney Flats. Additional online purchase were made using this credit card, with the items purchased allegedly being delivered to a vacant house on Conway Street in Kingsport. Further investigation has revealed that the suspect may have also opened a PayPal account in the victim’s name. An overhead photo of the suspect, in the process of making his purchase at Wal-Mart, is included in this release. He appears to be a small framed, thin, white male, possibly in his 20s, with short dark hair and glasses. Anyone who recognizes this individual is asked to contact detectives in the K.P.D. Criminal Investigations Division at 423-229-9429 or call Kingsport Central Dispatch at 423-246-9111. Alternatively, if an individual who is able to supply information related to this or any other case wishes not to be identified, tips can be submitted anonymously via online “Citizen Feedback” forms available at the following link: |
| RELEASING OFFICER | ||
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Thomas M. Patton, Public Information Officer
Kingsport Police Department Professional Standards Unit |
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KINGSPORT — A bridge dedication ceremony will be held Saturday, November 1, at 10 a.m. for the late Army Captain James Eddie Reed, the highest ranking Kingsport resident to give their life in service to our nation while serving in Vietnam, according to the virtualwall.org.
Given forecasts for inclement weather, the ceremony will be held inside the Kingsport Farmers Market on Clinchfield Street on the north end of the facility.
The previously unnamed Clinchfield Street bridge over Reedy Creek, between the intersections of Lovedale Drive and Holston Valley Drive, was formally named in honor of Captain Reed by resolution of the Kingsport Board of Mayor and Aldermen on July 1, 2014. The naming ceremony was delayed to allow family members to assembly for the event.
Captain Reed served with distinction in the United States Armys 9th Infantry Division, earning the Silver Star, two Bronze Stars with V device, Army Commendation, Combat Infantry Badge, Air Medal, Ranger Tab, Airborne Ribbon, and the Purple Heart.
Captain Reed was felled by artillery fire while leading his unit in Long An Province, South Vietnam during the Tet Offensive on February 1, 1968.
The Vietnam Veterans of America Post 979, East Tennessee State University Army ROTC Color Guard, and the American Legion Post 3 will all take part in the service.
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