Page 11 - Red Alert

RED ALERT - PREVENTION

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Smoke and gas kill before flames. We must all know how to prevent fires and how to deal
with them in an emergency. Fire may only take the strike of a match to start, but once started,
it is more powerful than any person in the world.

Here is a horror story for you to read. Unlike most horror
stories, this one is true. Can you guess what is being
described? - fill in the missing words.
_ _ _ _ is cunning. It usually starts during the night when you
are asleep. It knows that by catching you when you can not
smell the smoke you will find it very difficult to cope with it.
_ _ _ _ _ which happen between 12am and 6am kill more
people than _ _ _ _ _ which start at any other time.
_ ____ stops you from seeing - everything is _____ ,
blacker than you could possibly imagine.

_____ stops you from breathing - there is no ______ .
If you are awake there are only choking fumes that will make
you cough, that will make your eyes run, that will make you sick.

People who die in _____ are rarely burnt to death, they die of
___________ . Smoke will not wake you up, the carbon
monoxide gas will put you into a very deep _ ____ . This is
why we must close as many doors as possible before Play Video
going to sleep at night. The more doors that are closed, the
less chance there is of your escape route being affected by
smoke. The doors which should always be closed are those To give you time to escape you must have a working
to the lounge, living room, dining room, kitchen, cupboards in smoke alarm to detect the smoke early for you.
hallways, on landings and even bedroom doors if possible.

9 ANSWERS: THE MISSING WORDS ARE: FIRE, FIRES, FIRES, SMOKE, BLACK, SMOKE, OXYGEN, FIRES, SUFFOCATION, SLEEP .