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Fire and Burn Prevention Checklist!
Most burn injuries happen in the home. This checklist will help you evaluate your home environment and develop good burn safety habits.
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Burn Injuries Don't Take a Vacation
Play it safe. Enjoy your summer. Prevent burn injury.
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Safety Facts On Scald Burns
Over 500,000 scald burns occur annually in the United States. The two highest risk populations are children under the age of 5 and adults over 65.
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Using Heating Devices
The use of space heaters is growing. This increases the potential for fires and burn injuries. Small children are especially at risk for space heater-related problems.
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Celebrate a Fire-Safe Holiday
Keep accidents from marring your winter holidays. To enjoy a safe holiday season, read this brochure with as much care as you give to gift shopping and party planning.
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Travel Safe Guide - Surviving a Hotel Fire
Surviving a hotel fire really begins before you leave home. If you know how to behave in an emergency, you can greatly increase your chances of survival. Many times people panic when confronted with a fire situation and that's why they don't survive.
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Restaurant and Food Service Safety
The Food Service Industry experiences the highest number of burns of any employment sector, about 12,000 each year. Cooks, food handlers, kitchen workers, and wait staff are all listed among the top 50 occupations at risk for on-the-job burn injury.
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Adult Burn Fact Sheet
1999 Fact Sheet
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Pediatric Burn Fact Sheet
Burns to Children
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Hot Issue

The Anapol Schwartz Family Mentorship Program

Recovery from a burn injury continues long after leaving the hospital burn center.  Some people are uncomfortable with their looks and avoid going out in public.  Some become isolated and feel cut off from their support systems. The Anapol Schwartz Family Mentorship Program matches recent burn survivors and family members with more experienced survivor peers. Drawing on their own experiences, specially trained volunteers provide information and support to burn survivors and family members just going through the process. Please contact us for more information or you may download an application or descriptive brochure.


The Burn Foundation Spring, 2010 newsletter has been published!

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