Henrico Fire offers home heating safety tips
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The Henrico Fire Department is urging residents to exercise caution when heating their homes as temperatures drop below freezing.
Battalion Chief Doug Reynolds says the safest way to heat your home is through the central heating unit. However, if you need to use a space heater, there are critical safety steps to follow.
"When it comes to the electric space heaters, the biggest thing I can tell you, and I can't stress to you enough, never use an extension cord," Reynolds said. "This is where we see these things melt on a regular basis because they are not designed for the electricity that flows through with an electric space heater. It just draws so much electricity. And then what compounds it is sometimes we see a daisy chain, an extension cord to an extension cord."
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