Pre-event | - Teach children about risk of fires
- Provide barriers
- Create community creches
| - Childproof matchboxes
- Safer cookstoves
- Safer fuel storage
| - Lower flammability of structures
- Separate living and cooking spaces when able
| - Support transition to safe cookstoves
- Use community groups to disseminate safe cooking best practices
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Event | - Teach stop, drop, and roll
- Plan and practice fire escape plan
| - Keep fire blanket near cookstove
- Regulate flammable fabrics and upholstery
| - Install smoke and CO detectors
- Distribute fire extinguishers
| - Pass subsidies for smoke detectors
- Fund fire response programs
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Post-event | - Provide first aid education to laypeople
- Ensure rapid first response
| - Install auto-shutoff regulators on LPG stoves
| - Ensure access to telephone to call emergency response
| - Increase availability of burn stabilization points and care centers
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