And now, a public service announcement: Fire Safety

One of the highlights of the annual Safety Fair at work is the mandatory safety video.  Normally, they deal with workplace hazards.  And often, they're unintentionally humorous, like the one where the computers - and the shoulder pads - were large.  I spent the entire 15 minutes trying to figure out if it was filmed in the late 1980's or early 1990's.

This year was different.  It was a video about a man who experienced a fire in his house resulting from improper storage of spent 9-volt batteries.  (Cover the contacts with electrical tape until you take them for recycling.)

The video above chronicled all the mistakes he made in response to the fire, and how we can avoid them.  After watching the 12-minute video, I went to my desk to find it on YouTube, and learned it was the second (and longest) of four in a series of fire education videos.

In the first, we learn how a simple 9-volt better caused the fire.

In the third, we learn how to protect ourselves from fire.

And the fourth and final video features a tour of the burned house by a local fire captain.

I sent all four videos to my husband, and told him to check our batteries.  We found six of the offending batteries in our spent drawer.  Fortunately, our city was having a recycling event that weekend, and they're not out of the house.

Watching these four videos will take less than 30 minutes, but could save your family's life and property.

Now that's fast, frugal and fit.