An unextinguished cigarette butt caused two fatalities.
An unextinguished cigarette butt caused two fatalities.
Careless handling of fire is one of the most common causes of fires and deaths resulting from them. And it is all due to human carelessness.
A smoker repeats the harmless actions "took out-smoked-threw away" several times a day. However, sometimes this chain has a different continuation: "drank-smoked-fell asleep". Smoking combined with alcohol leads, in the best case, to smoked walls and ceilings, and in the worst case, to the loss of a home or even death.
Thus, on February 10, around midnight, the operational management center of the Lepel District Department for Emergency Situations received a report of a house fire on Lugovaya Street in the village of Stai. Upon arrival at the scene, open burning of the house was observed. Firefighters found the body of a woman on the sofa and a man on the floor behind a wardrobe at the fire site. As it turned out later, these were the owner of the house, a pensioner, and her son, born in 1986.
Everyone knows that smoking is harmful to health. But a cigarette can also cause a fire. Do not forget about the need to observe the following rules:
1. If you cannot quit tobacco yourself, do not throw cigarettes on the floor and do not smoke in bed;
2. Cigarette butts should be collected in a tin can filled with water. And forget the habit of throwing "butts" from a loggia or balcony;
3. Install a smoke detector, which will promptly notify you of a fire.