{"id":105726,"date":"2025-12-31T02:38:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T02:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/105726\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T02:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T02:38:12","slug":"el-paso-fire-give-tips-for-staying-safe-during-winter-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/105726\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso Fire give tips for staying safe during winter months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">EL PASO, Texas (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:KTSM;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">KTSM<\/a>) \u2014 With the arrival of some colder winter weather this week, the El Paso Fire Department had some common-sense tips to stay safe while heating your home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lt. Juan Acuna, with the El Paso Fire Department, said you should never use a fire grill or stove to heat your home because of the danger of carbon monoxide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If you need to use a space heater, Acuna said the most important thing is to buy it from a store and not second-hand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">You should make sure that any space heater you buy has been tested by a laboratory or certified testing company, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">When you set it up, make sure it is at least 3 feet away from anything that can catch fire, Acuna said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Also, keep space heaters away from children and pets, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A key safety feature is to buy a space heater that has an automatic shutoff feature if it tips over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Also, make sure you plug it directly into a wall and not an extension cord, Acuna said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A space heater can overload an extension cord, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">When you go to sleep, you need to turn your space heater off and not use it at night when have gone to bed, he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Finally, make sure that you never block your exit from a room or your home with a space heater.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) \u2014 With the arrival of some colder winter weather this week, the El Paso&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[47723,138,140,139,47721,47722,37597,16212],"class_list":{"0":"post-105726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-common-sense-tips","9":"tag-el-paso","10":"tag-el-paso-headlines","11":"tag-el-paso-news","12":"tag-juan-acuna","13":"tag-space-heater","14":"tag-space-heaters","15":"tag-the-el-paso-fire-department"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}