Inspect doors, windows, lighting, garage access, cameras, alarms, accounts, and outage fallbacks with a safe room-by-room home security checklist.
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Safety rules for generators, installed wood stoves, portable heaters, smoke alarms, carbon monoxide alarms, and the decision to leave a cold home.
Prepare backup power for winter outages with critical-load priorities, carbon monoxide safety, heat and water fallbacks, cold-weather limits, and drills.