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News 12’s Samantha Crawford has some tips on how heat your home safely during the winter.  

It is recommended to keep all potential sources of fuel, including paper, clothing and bedding away from any heating device. Ensuring those devices are not left unattended is also important.  

It is also recommended to keep children and pets a safe distance from those sources of heat.

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News 12’s Samantha Crawford has some tips on how heat your home safely during the winter.

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So many winters without snow. So what's behind this, what's been behind it is mainly just been two things really our weather patterns and just the shift in any of these storm systems that they've been shifting just a bit more to the south or east or to the north and east, which has been the trend for the last couple of years has been bringing in rain because of the warm sector of these storm systems instead of giving us any kind of snow. So unfortunately, we just kind of drew the short stick, but this year, we are hoping for a little bit better Tama, but at least for right now that's not going to be happening for us. We are looking outside at a gorgeous sunset over in Tarrytown and that is going to be leading to a system of rain. That's right. We're still not gonna be dealing with any kind of snow forest just yet, but we are going to start to see a rain once again by the time we get into our Sunday. So taking a look outside as of right now for our radar, things are gonna be dry but cloudy across the board, even fog is going to develop overnight. So the next 12 hours just be mindful. It's gonna be cloudy but dry and rather mild for this time of year, temperature steady into the upper forties. And we are gonna be seeing that rain developing rather late mainly overnight from our Saturday into our Sunday morning. So make sure you have your umbrella and rain gear ready to go. And if you just wanna stay indoors and watch movies, it's gonna be a great day to do that as well, especially if you haven't put up any of your holiday decorations just yet. Sunday morning, Sunday afternoon, we're expecting rain showers could potentially see some brief heavy spouts and then we have a brief little break in our rain as well early into our Sunday afternoon, but it's still gonna be on and off showers throughout much of our Sunday heading into our Sunday nights before clearing. By the time we get to our Monday morning, a half to three quarters of an inch of rainfall is what we're expecting across the board, especially towards Yonkers and White Plains inching closer to that three quarters of rainfall. But for the days ahead, the rain is mainly gonna be Sunday and then we're looking for a dry trend and on top of it, a chilly trend heading into next week. Quick look at our 10 day forecast. Monday looks to be one of the warmer spots and then forties and even upper thirties for Hanukkah.

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Tips to heat home safely during winter

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here in the alert center. Now as temperatures here in the Hudson Valley go down, we know you're all cranking up the heat at home but make sure you're doing so safely because national Fire officials say half of all home heating fires occur now through february. We have this great guide up on news 12 dot com and on the news 12 app to help you make sure that you're not putting yourself or you your family at risk. So if you scroll through this guide, you'll see all the tips right here. Like keep away all potential sources of fuel, like paper clothing and bedding from any heaters or stoves or fireplaces. Keep pets and kids about three ft or more away from those sources of heat and definitely do not leave any portable heaters or fi places left on and unattended, make sure they're out completely. And if you are using a space heater in your home, make sure they're on a level hard surface, also a non flammable surface to We have more life saving tips for you here regarding smoke alarms, which types of fuel to use for different things and equipment inspection. So a lot of few minutes today, to check out this guide here

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