{"id":267,"date":"2012-02-28T12:03:22","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T12:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mema\/?p=267"},"modified":"2012-02-28T12:03:22","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T12:03:22","slug":"usfa-smoking-fire-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mdem\/2012\/02\/28\/usfa-smoking-fire-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"USFA: Smoking Fire Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/links.govdelivery.com\/track?type=click&amp;enid=ZWFzPTEmbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTIwMjIyLjU3MjE2MzEmbWVzc2FnZWlkPU1EQi1QUkQtQlVMLTIwMTIwMjIyLjU3MjE2MzEmZGF0YWJhc2VpZD0xMDAxJnNlcmlhbD0xNjg4NTE3NiZlbWFpbGlkPWVtY2Rvbm91Z2hAbWVtYS5zdGF0ZS5tZC51cyZ1c2VyaWQ9ZW1jZG9ub3VnaEBtZW1hLnN0YXRlLm1kLnVzJmZsPSZleHRyYT1NdWx0aXZhcmlhdGVJZD0mJiY=&amp;&amp;&amp;101&amp;&amp;&amp;http:\/\/www.usfa.fema.gov\/citizens\/home_fire_prev\/holiday-seasonal\/winter.shtm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.usfa.fema.gov\/_images\/govdelivery\/winter_banner.jpg\" alt=\"Put a Freeze on Winter Fires\" width=\"446\" height=\"45\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Smoking Fire Safety<\/h1>\n<p>It may be cold in much of the United States right now, but if you smoke, it\u2019s better to smoke outside. A lit cigarette left alone in a room, or accidentally dropped onto a chair or bed, or hot cigarette ashes or matches tossed away before they are completely out &#8211; all can cause a large fire in seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Putting out a cigarette the right way only takes seconds, too. It is up to you to make sure your cigarette is put out, all the way, every time.<\/p>\n<p>One-in-four people killed in home fires is not the smoker whose cigarette caused the fire.<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>More than one-third were children of the smokers.<\/li>\n<li>Twenty-five percent were neighbors or friends of the smokers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Take a moment to learn about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/links.govdelivery.com\/track?type=click&amp;enid=ZWFzPTEmbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTIwMjIyLjU3MjE2MzEmbWVzc2FnZWlkPU1EQi1QUkQtQlVMLTIwMTIwMjIyLjU3MjE2MzEmZGF0YWJhc2VpZD0xMDAxJnNlcmlhbD0xNjg4NTE3NiZlbWFpbGlkPWVtY2Rvbm91Z2hAbWVtYS5zdGF0ZS5tZC51cyZ1c2VyaWQ9ZW1jZG9ub3VnaEBtZW1hLnN0YXRlLm1kLnVzJmZsPSZleHRyYT1NdWx0aXZhcmlhdGVJZD0mJiY=&amp;&amp;&amp;102&amp;&amp;&amp;http:\/\/www.usfa.fema.gov\/campaigns\/smoking\/smoker\/index.shtm\" target=\"_blank\">Smoking and Home Fire action steps \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Smoking Fire Safety It may be cold in much of the United States right now, but if you smoke, it\u2019s better to smoke outside. A lit cigarette left alone in a room, or accidentally dropped onto a chair or bed, or hot cigarette ashes or matches tossed away before they are completely out &#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mdem\/2012\/02\/28\/usfa-smoking-fire-safety\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[110,248],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fire-safety","tag-smoking"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mdem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mdem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mdem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mdem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mdem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mdem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mdem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mdem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mdem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}