Now that the storm over the storm cleanup begins activities around homes and businesses. The Anne Arundel County Fire Department offers the following recommendations for those who enjoy outdoor activities or snow removal:
- Wear suitable clothing for the weather. The layers of warm clothing and loose are better than one thick garment. Wear hats and gloves or gloves when exposed to the cold.
- Tempo physical activity, such as shoveling snow or pushing cars. Regardless of age or physical condition, avoid overexertion. Older people should be careful when it comes to snow removal.
- Check on family and elderly neighbors.
- Be aware and stay away from all downed power lines.
- Operate equipment such as gas generators is within a structure. Also a garage with the door open can not vent properly.
- We ask residents to "adopt a fire hydrant." As the search for the residence of the storm, we ask you to help the fire department in the county, is an area around hydrants on or near to delete their properties. This allows the mouth to be used in an emergency.
Commercial and business owners must ensure that the following items in accordance with the Fire Code Anne Arundel County completed:
- Make sure the snow is entitled to provide reasonable access and stretched firefighters. Snow should be removed from all output ports to be open at least 90 degrees. These doors should be the ones along the back or the side of the building, which can not be used normally include.
- A clear path travel should also be provided in a parking lot or pavement.
- The streets around the building, including the unpaved fire lane must be cleared by 20 foot clearance provide for emergency vehicle access is maintained for all parts of the building and provide access to fire hydrants.
- Clear at least 3 feet of space should also be placed on all sides of the hydrants available.
To help make the cleaning of the safest snow has the American Heart Association compiled a list of tips.
- Take a break. Take frequent breaks while the blade in order to avoid stress on your heart. Pay attention to how you feel your body during these breaks.
- A heavy Do not eat before or shortly after shoveling food. Eating a large meal can put an extra burden on your heart.
- Use a small or are considering a snowblower blade. The fact that lifting heavy snow can raise blood pressure acutely during the uprising. It is safer to repeatedly raise small amounts of the hanging giant shovels full of snow. If possible, simply push the snow.
- Know the warning signs of a heart attack and listen to your body, but remember. Even if you are not sure that it is a heart attack, you can check (Furthermore doctor about your symptoms) Minutes matter! Fast action can save lives - maybe you have your own more than five minutes Do not wait to call 9-1-1.
- C alcoholi not drink beverages before or immediately after shoveling. Alcohol can increase the warm feeling of a person and underestimate the extra effort on your body is low in the cold.
- Get medical attention. If you have a medical condition that does not exercise regularly or are middle-aged or older, meet with your doctor before the first snow forecast.
- Be aware of the dangers of hypothermia. Heart failure causes most deaths in hypothermia. Hypothermia to prevent, dress in layers of warm clothing, the air between the layers captures the formation of a protective insulation. Wear a hat, because lost much of their body heat through your head.
If you are lucky enough to own a snow plow, use safely. Heavy wet snow may even block the best snowblower. But do not be tempted to remove a jam with his hands. This almost sure that you will get a trip to the emergency room before deleting the entry. Snowmaking also other risks of carbon monoxide poisoning and safety of flying debris. Here's how to keep out of danger.
- Before the snow is too deep to be removed, doormats, sleds, boards, son, newspapers and nothing else to prevent the surface to be cleaned blockages and damage to the machine.
- Do not allow children to use a snowblower. And the people and pets away from the area where compensation.
- Turn off the engine in a gas or snow from the motor of an electric model before clearing a blockage in the auger or discharge chute. Keep hands and feet - and with a tool offset or joystick to erase the blockade. Remember that a fixed wheel and screw are often belt tension, damage the hands and feet, even when the engine or electric motor is switched off.
- Protect in a garage, shed or other enclosed area, even if the door is opened before carbon monoxide poisoning establishing and operating petrol blower outdoors, never.
- Never wear loose pants, jackets, scarves or moving parts of a snowblower and drag them caught.
- Use earplugs or other hearing protection, particularly with gasoline models that are hearing loss is usually about 85 decibels, which may cause.
- Wait until the engine gas model is cool before refueling gasoline in order to prevent ignition.
- For electric models, an extension cord outdoors and output channels ground fault interrupt (GFCI). Then be sure to keep the cable safe from rotating auger while working.
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