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Don’t let your Thanksgiving meal affect your home insurance.

By November 25, 2020January 14th, 2021Insurance
Thanksgiving home insurance

Thanksgiving day may look a little different this year but it can still affect your home insurance.  Thanksgiving day can be a day one of the days of the year that you may need to use your homeowners insurance.  Home cooking fires peak on Thanksgiving day.  According tog www.nfpa.orgwww.nfpa.org, in 2018 1,630 home cooking fires were reported.  In addition cooking is the second leading cause of fire deaths between 2014-2018.  Above all do not leave cooking equipment unattended.  Unattended cooking equipment accounts for rough 31% of home cooking fires. After unattended cooking, are issues like throwing away still hot food and items too close to cooking surfaces. Electric ranges have a higher percentage of home fires compared to gas ranges. Above all never leaving your cooking unattended.

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More safety tips for Thanksgiving can be found in prior blog post on this website.  Similarly we have touched on deep frying a turkey.  See the links below for more info.  Our blog is update regularly with safety tips and insurance info.  Take a look around while you are here.  We hope that you will find something useful.  If you have further questions feel free to email us or give us a call.

Upcoming Schedule

Our Thanksgiving this year may look and feel different than holidays in the past.  We hope that everyone has a safe and great day no matter how they celebrate.  We want to remind everyone that we will be closed on Thanksgiving day and the Friday after.  If your Thanksgiving day does affect your homeowners insurance don’t worry.  Our client center can let you reach out to us.  In addition you can check out our company page for contact info for claims.  We will return on Monday at 8:30 to help with all your insurance needs.

More Thanksgiving safety: https://icpitt.com/blog/have-you-set-the-table-for-safety/

Deep Frying a turkey:  https://icpitt.com/blog/deep-fried-turkey-anyone/

Our companies contact info:  https://icpitt.com/about-our-agency/insurance-companies/