Safety

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Burglary prevention

• Avoid unnecessary display or talk about your valuables.
• Avoid hiding a house key under the doormat or nearby vicinity.
• Teach your family to leave the house undisturbed and call the police if they discover a burglary has been committed.
• Trim trees and shrubs to eliminate hiding places.
• Consider a security closet with a solid core door and a dead-bolt lock.
• Keep emergency telephone numbers listed on your phone.
• Install lights around the perimeter of your home.
• Lock up your ladder.

• Outside doors should be solid core construction.
• Entry doors should have a wide-angle viewer.
• Exterior doors should have cylinder-type dead-bolt locks.
• Doors without cylinder locks should have a heavy bolt or some similar secure device that can be operated only from the inside.
• Sliding doors should have a lock that locks both the door panels together or the active side to the frame.
• The garage door and basement door should be secured with a lock.
• Lock your garage door at night and when you are away from home.

• All windows should be equipped with locks or be pinned.
• Keep your windows locked when they are shut.
• Put secure locks on garage windows.
• Cover garage windows with curtains.

• Arrange for friends or neighbors to pick up newspapers and mail.
• Notify a neighbor you'll be gone.
• Arrange to keep your lawn maintained.
• Arrange to have your snow shoveled.
• Use timing devices for your lights and radio.