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The Independence Day holiday coming up fast - and with it the wonder, awe, and hazards of fireworks.  Leave all fireworks activity to the professionals. Do not use consumer fireworks.

Each July 4th, thousands of people, most often children and teens, are injured while using consumer fireworks.

Even sparklers are dangerously hot and burn hands! These seemingly harmless fireworks reach temperatures of between 1200° F/649°C to 2000° F/1093°C , and cause full thickness burns in seconds.

~ The risk of firework injuries is highest for children ages 5–14.

Also read:

• Fire
• Campfire Safety
• Fire Safety & Extinguishers
• How to Treat Thermal Burns
• The Fire Triangle
• Types of Fire Extinguishers
• General Burn First Aid Information
• Ring of Fire
• Make a Fire Escape Plan

Getting the Itch to head outdoors? Weather is changing, and soon all the camping, hiking, and wilderness adventures will begin!

Before they do, we'd like to review some review some campfire safety tips:

~ Always use a designated fire pit and NEVER EVER use gasoline or kerosene as a starter fluid or accelerant to start or increase campfires.

~ Children should never build a fire without adult supervision and a 3-foot "no kids zone" should be enforced at all times.

~ Have water readily available prior to building your fire.

~ Extinguish your fire safely and make sure all COALS have been extinguished before you leave. Many burn injuries come from abandoned and improperly disposed of and/or extinguished coals

We spent a lot of time this week discussing scalds from steam and hot liquids for Burn Awareness Week, but remember that there are other kitchen burns that occur very frequently...

While Tap water and Steam burn in the kitchen, boiling water on your cooktop often is what created that steam and also splashes to create scald injuries.

Remember, too,  that electric coil cooking rings are deceptive... we know that red means hot, but in the cooling stages, coils may appears to have returned to a cool state color-wise, yet still retain enough heat to cause damage. Worse than that, gas cooking surfaces usually have black grills that do not change color while cooking, and give no indication that they are dangerously hot if touched.

Scalds and burns can scar and disfigure, and can cause permanent nerve and tissue damage. Know How to Treat Thermal Burns, and have a Burn First Aid Kit and/or appropriate burn care first aid supplies in your kitchen.

This year, for Burn Awareness Week, the focus is on scalds. Scalds are a painful and unusual type of burn.

The length of contact with the scalding substance, and the temperature are the main factors affecting scald severity. The clothes on which a substance is spilled retain heat until they are removed.

The nature of the substance matters. The stickier or heavier the substance that spills, the more likely it will retain heat and stick to the body, or to the clothes on the body. Oatmeal and spaghetti sauce heated close to the boiling point, for example, will cause a more severe injury than hot water of the same temperature.

Some other considerations for scald burns:

~ A spill of small size may affect a large area of a child’s body.

~ A cup of coffee, for example, could burn 25% of a toddler’s body.

~ Scald burns to the face, hands, feet or private areas of the body can be difficult to heal and affect their functions for a long time.

Also read: Burns and Scalds in the Kitchen & read other articles in our Burn Care First Aid Blog.