{"id":133823,"date":"2026-01-22T18:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T18:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/133823\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T18:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T18:15:09","slug":"firefighters-give-advice-on-how-to-heat-your-home-safely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/133823\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters give advice on how to heat your home safely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmkpqs5o9000v01sgsjfdn91m@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">Firefighters are urging caution as people do everything they can to stay warm over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmkpqtokx000r357v81l9hiy6@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">One of the most dangerous heating sources if used incorrectly involves space heaters.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmkpqtono000s357vbn8iy70r@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">James Dugger with the Garland Fire Department says not to plug space heaters into power cords.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmkpqtoqe000t357vgnhglg8t@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">&#8220;Plug them directly into the wall,&#8221; Dugger said. &#8220;Don&#8217;t use a power surge protector strip.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmkpqtost000v357vtcbkou5w@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">On top of that, do not use ovens or gas stoves as sources to heat your home.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmkpqtozx000w357vsr4eyeq6@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">&#8220;Anytime you&#8217;re using a cooking appliance it should be attended,&#8221; Dugger said. &#8220;When you&#8217;re using it as a heating source, they&#8217;re not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmkpqtp2m000x357vgc1h8ap0@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">Appliances should only be used for cooking and should never be left unattended.<\/p>\n<p>\n          Featured Image Photo Credit: Getty Images\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters are urging caution as people do everything they can to stay warm over the weekend. One of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":{"0":"post-133823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-plano","9":"tag-plano-headlines","10":"tag-plano-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133823","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=133823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}