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Living Safe
Working fires now. Do you, your wife, your children, or practice it.

your grandchildren know what to do if the Firefighters are trained and ready to
By Pete Hypes smoke alarms go off? Will your family fight your fire. You and I need to be just
wake up in the middle of the night when as diligent, if not more, to prevent a fire
ith this cold weather has • Space heaters too close to the smoke alarms are going off? from occurring. The probability and
come several fire incidents in combustibles Do you have a practiced home escape possibility of structure fires during cold
W Chesterfield County and the plan? What will you do for the youngest weather is very high. Take the time and
surrounding jurisdictions just over the • Grill fires and oldest people in your home, as well do a home fire safety inspection, make
past few days. One of these fires resulted • Sweating of pipes as the pets in your home? There seems sure that you have an adequate number of
in the death of an occupant, even though to have been several pets that have either working smoke alarms, install a residential
firefighters did a great job getting the • Improper storage of flammable been rescued or died in some of the fires sprinkler system, and have a practiced
victim out of the burning dwelling. I do or combustible liquids this winter. You owe it to yourself and your home escape plan. I leave you with this:
not know the causes of any of these fires, family to put this plan together and then to when you get out, stay out!
with some still under investigation. The • Arson
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RECENTLY DECEASED

ALEXANDER, Mr. Eugene Leonard, 74, of Chester, husband of Lynn Clarke
Alexander.
COLLINS, Mrs. Margaret M. Breheny, 91, of Chesterfield.
EDMONDSON, Mr. Milton Ray, 79, of North Chesterfield, an Army veteran, husband
of Carolyn Edmondson.
HALE, Mr. Robert W., 89, of Chesterfield, husband of Jewel Rainey Hale.
HILL, Mrs. Melvena Cooper, 70, of North Chesterfield, wife of Joseph Hill.
JOHNSON, Miss Carol Yvette, 54, of Chesterfield.
JONES, Mr. James F., 75, of North Chesterfield.
KING, Mrs. Betsy Mason, 82, of North Chesterfield, widow of Walter Thomas King
Jr.
PAGE, Mrs. Nellie Harrison, 75 of Chesterfield, wife of Charles “Pete” Page.
PATTERSON, Mr. Lionel Spencer, 61, of Chester, husband of Virginia Patterson.
PUETT, Mr. Aubrey N., 74, of North Chesterfield.
SHIFFLETT, Mrs. Bernice Parrish, 97, of Chesterfield, widow of Ralph Shifflett.
TAVENNER, Mrs. Andrea Jones, 31, of Chesterfield, wife of Matt Tavenner.
TRAYLOR, Mrs. Joyce Ann, 80, of South Chesterfield, wife of Thomas R. “T.R.”
Traylor Jr.

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