Overview
- Authorities urge using certified, preferably LED, lights, inspecting cords, avoiding overloaded outlets and disconnecting decorations before sleep or when leaving home.
- Health and safety agencies advise against fireworks in enclosed spaces, warn that children should not handle pyrotechnics, and stress buying only authorized products for outdoor use.
- Peru’s Interior Ministry launched an enforcement campaign against illegal fireworks with police, Sucamec and firefighters to curb accidents and seizures of risky devices.
- Civil-protection guidance emphasizes unattended cooking and candles as major hazards, recommending clear spaces away from flammables, checks on gas installations and functional detectors or extinguishers.
- Families are encouraged to prepare a simple emergency plan with evacuation routes, a meeting point, a stocked first-aid kit and flashlights, and to avoid drunk driving while protecting children and pets from cables and toxic plants.