Fire: How Can You Prevent Risks at Home?

Reduce Risks Around Your Home

• Regularly maintain your landscaping and remove fallen leaves and other dry materials that have accumulated near your home.
• Store flammable products in a suitable location, away from heat sources, and in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions.
• Keep gardening equipment and fuels away from the building when necessary.
• Do not allow easily flammable materials to accumulate near your home.

Consider the design and maintenance of your home

• If you are building or renovating, find out about materials and solutions suited to your home’s fire risk exposure. Also, have any systems that could cause a fire to start inspected and maintained.
• Install and maintain smoke detectors in accordance with Luxembourg regulations.

In the Event of a Fire

The top priority is people’s safety.

• Call 112 immediately in Luxembourg.
• Evacuate the home if you can do so without putting yourself at risk.
• Do not return to the building to retrieve belongings.
• Follow the instructions of emergency responders.
• Do not attempt to fight a fire that is spreading or if your safety cannot be guaranteed.

After a fire

Once everyone is safe and emergency responders have completed their work, document the damage when it can be done safely and follow the steps to file an insurance claim.

Recommended validation step: Specific technical guidelines regarding fire suppression or limiting the spread of fire must be validated by the CGDIS or a fire safety expert prior to publication.