Your safety is our priority! The following are tips and up-to-date product recalls, community and county restrictions, and home safety instructions which we hope will help you and your family plan and be prepared in case of emergency. Certainly, this list is not exhaustive, but we have provided as much as we can and we promise to update the page with new material as required.
About 70 percent of 911 calls are placed from wireless phones and that percentage is growing. The ability to call 911 for help in an emergency is one of the main reasons many own a wireless phone. Consider keeping your land line in your home for emergencies. Prepare to tell dispatch where you are located. The call will be routed to an emergency dispatch where the cell tower is located or several cell towers away, not where you are located. That tower will be different from the town of Double Oak.
Wireless phones are not land lines. There are unique challenges posed by wireless phones for emergency response personnel and wireless service providers. Since wireless phones are mobile, they are not associated with one fixed location or address. Automatic number identification/automatic location identification is standard equipment in any Public Service Answering Point (PSAP) known as the 911 center. Wireless phones currently do not have this capability.
– Tell dispatch the location of the emergency right away.
– Provide dispatch with your wireless phone number in case you are disconnected or they need to call you back.
– If your wireless phone does not have a contract for service, dispatch does not have your number and cannot contact you.
– Refrain from programming your phone to automatically dial 911 when one button.
– Turn off the auto-dial 911 feature if it is already turned on.
– Lock your keypad when you’re not using your wireless phone to help prevent accidental calls to 911.
– Creating a contact in your wireless phone’s memory with the name “ICE” (In Case of Emergency), which lists the phone numbers of people you want to have notified in an emergency.
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The following is the procedure for getting a permit to burn within the Town Limits.
You must call the Denton County Fire Marshal’s Office at 940-349-2840 or log onto their website and fill out an Application for Open Burning Permit. The determination, if it is a Burn Day, is done every morning between 8 am and 9 am. This determination is done by the Texas TCEQ and not the Denton County Fire Marshal. Once you have the permit, you are cleared to burn. You can only burn limbs and brush. No construction materials or any other products can be burned. You must remain with the fire at all times and have a water hose in the area if the burn gets out of hand. All fires must be extinguished by sunset. The smoke from the burn must not cause a nuisance to your surrounding residences. This can be controlled by not starting with a large fire, but starting with a smaller fire and adding limbs and brush to it as it burns down.
If you have any questions, please feel free to call us at the Fire Department (972) 539-7683.
Click HERE for the latest on open burning in Denton County.
Use our free fire escape grid to draw a floor plan of your home. Show all doors and windows and two ways out of every room. Mark two ways out of each room
Download free escape grid.
Fire can spread rapidly leaving you as little as one or two minutes to escape your home safely once the alarm sounds.
Download free tip sheet.
Escape planning tips
Put your plan to the test
Items that block doors and windows in your home could keep you from escaping in the event of a home fire. And that could mean the difference between life and death. So unblock your exits today! Key to your family’s safety is planning and practicing a home fire escape plan twice a year. Start by identifying two escape routes out of each room, if possible, then make sure that each of those escape routes can be used safely by everyone. Download the “Clear Your Escape Routes” brochure in English or Spanish.
Courtesy of the National Fire Protection Agency (NFPA)
To assemble your kit store items in airtight plastic bags and put your entire disaster supplies kit in one or two easy-to-carry containers such as plastic bins or a duffel bag.
A basic emergency supply kit could include the following recommended items:
Since Spring of 2020, the CDC has recommended people include additional items in their kits to help prevent the spread of coronavirus or other viruses and the flu.
Consider adding the following items to your emergency supply kit based on your individual needs:
After assembling your kit remember to maintain it so it’s ready when needed:
Since you do not know where you will be when an emergency occurs, prepare supplies for home, work and cars.
Courtesy of ready.gov
