Chimney Safety Tips
Chimney maintenance is vital to your family’s safety. The Hasbrouck Heights Fire Department offers these tips:
• Have your chimney inspected and cleaned on a regular basis.
• When possible, burn seasoned woods (dryness of the wood is more important than hard wood versus soft wood).
• Smaller, hotter fires will burn more completely and produce less smoke.
• Do not burn cardboard boxes or trash, as they can spark a chimney fire.
• Install stovepipe thermometers, which help monitor flue temperatures where wood stoves are in use, then adjust burning practices as needed
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