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18 The Link Magazine • February 2002
Enjoy your chips in safety
.eiki *Cbool Between 11 and 17 February you'll be encouraged to enjoy the traditional British take away, fish and chips
during National Chip Week, writes community fire safety officer Leading Firefighter Mark Altree.
alb .Etinic The week is one of the nation's Do not under any circumstance, If you would like free fire safety
best established awareness cam- throw water on to a chip pan fire. advice on this or any other home
Professional Healing Courses paigns in Britain, but please be If you are in any doubt about fire safety matter, contact your lo-
Learn this ancient careful. whether to try and put it out your- cal fire station:
healing art Chip pan fires still account for self, DON'T. Swindon 401229
an alarming number of domestic Leave the room, close the door Westlea 487562
Reiki is safe, completely natural Stratton 822425
and highly effective complementary fires in this country every year and and call the fire brigade on 999.
the injuries from this kind of inci-
therapy. Reiki is not a religion
or a belief system dent can be very serious. New safer Melanie nearly cooked in chip fire drama
fryers that plug into the mains,
have lids and are thermostatically Oven cooked chips `
are definitel on the
controlled are available from as
menu for Melanie
little as £20. Nye after she was
But if you still use the old style
chip pan, the type that sits on the rescued dram ati-
hob, please remember to use it cally on 8 January.
She forgot to turn
safel y. the heat off under A .• ,•- t
1 Do not fill it more than a third her chip pan before{'
full of oil going upstairs. -
2 Never put ice covered or wet
Courses available at all levels, Twenty minutes
small informal groups, individual attention, chips in the pan (the ice melts later the house on
comprehensive manual, ce rtificated. and can cause serious problems) Wootton Bassett
3 Never leave the pan unattended
After course guidance and suppo rt. Road was full of
- not even to answer the door
FREE INFORMATION PACK smoke but Melanie
4 Never put food in the pan if the
Reiki Master/Teacher. Guild of oil is beginning to smoke; it could was able to see the
Complimentary Practitioners catch fire. Turn off the heat and glowing light of her
F. J. Taylor, (01793) 848940 leave the oil to cool. mobile and to call
Mobile: 07740 516238 If your chip pan does catch fire, 999.
Within minutes a
Reiki treatments available for relief of Do NOT move it crew from Swindon
stress, pain, depression, low energy, etc. If you can, turn off the heat and were putting out
cover the pan with a DAMP (not
[email protected] • www.reikiretreat.co.uk the fire and another from Westlea Melanie with her rescuers. Fire fighter
soaking wet) tea towel and leave it had a ladder up to her bedroom And Magnell, right, who went up the
to cool.
where she was guided down. ladder and Sub-officer Neil Chamberlain
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