Trees and candles and lights…oh my!
At Blue Marble Landscape we care a lot about trees… and about our valued clients.
Trees are one of the most valuable landscape assets for any community or property. They provide character, beauty, and protection. However, if they are not managed properly-especially during the holiday season, they can become a liability to the community and property.
From holiday candles, Christmas trees & palm trees, to wreaths and dangling garlands seasonal decor can be hazardous if not properly used with care. Fire safety is a priority during this festive season and the tree and landscape experts wish to keep the holidays happy, bright and safefor you, your family and guests.
Arizona celebrates Christmas with lights in all kinds of trees, from palm trees to deciduous. Lights are strewn indoors and outside, in homes and in commercial landscapes. This is also a popular time of year for using candles. Unfortuanetly December is the peak time of year for home candle fires.
Christmas safety should be on everyone’s mind this Holiday season. Did you know that one out of every three home Christmas tree fires are caused by electrical problems? Heat sources being too close to the Christmas tree causes one in every four of Christmas tree fires.
Every year Christmas trees account for hundreds of fires. Most often it is shorts in electrical lights and open flames from candles, lighters or matches start tree fires. You’d be surprised how much water a Christmas tree needs to remain moist and healthy. Dry or neglected trees are a potential fire waiting to happen.
From our family here at Blue Marble Landscape to yours, we’d like to share a few things you need to know about keeping your home and family safe from fires during the holiday season!
Here’s the short list for fire safety:
Christmas Trees And Lights
As we’ve already mentioned, you must keep your tree well hydrated. Two or three days without water is enough to dry our your tree. Once it is this dry it can catch on fire easily, and really should be discarded.
Overloaded electrical circuits to accommodate holiday lighting, decorations and cooking appliances, unknowingly increasing the potential for electrical fires and outages.
Now that you’ve inspected your Christmas lights for frayed wire or other defects, gotten rid of flimsy extension chords and made sure your tree is not dry here are a few more safety tips and suggestions:
Install a timer to automatically turn on your lights at night and off in the morning if it’s too darn cold to go outside.
Fireplaces
As tree care specialist you might think that Blue Marble only cares about living trees…however, we know a thing or two about firewood and kindling.
As winter evenings can be quiet chilly in Arizona, there are quite a few homes using wood burning fireplaces. Here are a few fire safety tips for beautiful and safe Christmas fires:
Wreaths And Candles
Candles definitely provide festive ambiance and fragrances, but they’re also responsible for starting 2 out of every 5-decoration structure fires each year. This is especially true during the holidays with the top days for candle use being Christmas Eve, Day and New Years Day. Here are some candle and décor safety tips:
The Best Landscape Services: Safety First
One of the reasons that Blue Marble Landscape is one of the top ten Arizona tree care service providers is because we emphasize the safety of people and property above all else.
Safety first: No one enjoys the holidays when someone is hurt or fires threaten everything that we hold dear. Follow these tips to help make the most of the holiday season.
Blue Marble Landscape’s team of Arizona experts, who include certified arborists, is committed to professionally managing your inventory of trees with proper pruning techniques, including keeping them cleared from buildings, streets, and sidewalks. We are also dedicated to consistently evaluating the health of the trees on every property we manage and can remove trees when necessary.
Our experts, on staff, provide quality tree management for every property we manage, including tree removal when necessary. For more information about our Arizona tree management program, please call 480.895.2684 or click here.
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