This module provides basic information about propane safety and how to keep your family safe during and after a winter storm.
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Know what propane smells like. It has a strong, unpleasant smell like rotten eggs, a skunk's spray or a dead animal.
Know how and where to turn off the propane. This includes your outdoor tank and your appliances inside. For help, contact your propane provider.
If a winter storm threatens your safety, you may have to decide whether or not to leave your home. Listen to a local television or radio station for information and instructions.
If you decide to stay:
Use caution in the area surrounding your home or farm:
Extremely cold temperatures can cause pipes to freeze or crack. High winds or falling ice can move, shift, or damage gas lines, tanks, and equipment.
There are three potential hazards in the backyard below. Use your mouse to identify these hazards.
Click for more information. Move to the next screen once you have identified all three hazards.
How would you fix the potential hazards in this backyard?
Use the objects in the shed. Click and drag them to correct the hazards.
Read each statement below. Decide if the statement is true or false.
|During a winter storm, you should bring your outdoor propane heater and cylinder indoors to provide additional heat.|
|Before a winter storm, you should mark your propane tank with a flag or stake.|
|Once the storm starts, you should not go anywhere near your propane tank.|
|To turn off your gas, turn the main supply valve counterclockwise.|
|If you smell gas, you should immediately put out all smoking materials and other open flames.|