Fire Prevention Week is October 5th to 11th, and this year’s theme is “Charging into Fire Safety”.

Dennis Benson, Fire Chief with Thompson Fire and Emergency Services talks more about the theme here.

“It focuses on the best possible ways to provide information on how to select, use, charge, store and recycle your lithium batteries. There are so many products that we use that contain lithium-ion batteries and a lot of people aren’t even aware that the product they may be using does contain a lithium-ion battery.”

The dangers that come with these batteries are improper charging, storage and disposal.

Batteries can overheat, spark fires and explode if not used properly.

Benson recommends only charging your devices with the charger or cord provided with it, never leaving your device while it is charging and to only charge devices on a hard, flat surface.

For more on safety practices with lithium-ion batteries catch Thompson Today this afternoon at 12:40 and 5:10.