Ready Hour Large Fire Blanket

Simple Fire Protection for Emergency Preparedness & Community Resilience

Prepared communities begin with prepared households.

In a major emergency, disaster, or widespread infrastructure failure, firefighters and other emergency services may be dealing with dozens—or hundreds—of incidents simultaneously. Help may not arrive as quickly as it normally would.

That is one of the fundamental principles of civil defense and community resilience: citizens should have the basic equipment, knowledge, and ability to handle manageable emergencies themselves while knowing when conditions require evacuation and professional assistance.

The Ready Hour Large Fire Blanket is a simple piece of emergency equipment that belongs in the preparedness supplies of virtually every home.

Unlike a fire extinguisher, a fire blanket requires no charging, pressure gauge, pin, hose, or complicated operating procedure. Deploy the blanket and completely cover a small fire to help deprive the flames of oxygen.

It can also provide an additional barrier against heat and flame when evacuating from a dangerous area.

Why We Recommend a Fire Blanket

Disasters often create secondary emergencies.

Hurricanes, earthquakes, severe storms, extended power failures, damaged electrical systems, improvised cooking arrangements, generators, candles, fireplaces, camp stoves, damaged vehicles, and debris can all increase fire hazards.

During a widespread emergency, calling 911 may not produce the response time you normally expect.

That doesn't mean becoming your own fire department. It means having the ability to deal with a small, controllable fire before it becomes a major emergency—and recognizing when it is time to get out.

A fire blanket gives your household another immediate-response tool alongside smoke alarms and properly rated fire extinguishers.

Useful Throughout the Home

Consider keeping fire blankets in several locations:

• Kitchen — cooking and grease-fire emergencies
• Garage or workshop — sparks and small equipment fires
• Near fireplaces and wood stoves
• Emergency cooking area
• Generator storage or operating area
• RV or camper
• Vehicle emergency kit
• Community emergency-response supplies 

Because it requires no electricity, batteries, charging, or pressurized cylinder, it remains ready during extended power failures and other infrastructure disruptions.

Large Enough for More Than a Small Kitchen Fire

At approximately 47.2 inches high × 70.8 inches wide, this is a substantially sized emergency blanket.

It can be used to help:

Smother small fires
Cover the burning material and help cut off the oxygen feeding the flames.

Respond to cooking and grease fires
A particularly useful capability because water should never be thrown onto a grease fire.

Protect during evacuation
The blanket can provide an additional barrier against heat and flames while moving away from a dangerous area.

Control sparks
It can be placed over vulnerable surfaces or equipment when sparks from appropriate work activities create a potential ignition hazard.

Construction & Specifications

• 100% flame-retardant construction
• Two layers of woven fiberglass fabric
• Inner fire-retardant film
• Heat isolation rating: up to 1,076°F (580°C)
• Dimensions: approximately 47.2" H × 70.8" W
• No batteries
• No charging
• No pressurized cylinder
• No replacement parts required for storage
• Compact enough for emergency preparedness kits

Civil Defense Starts at Home

Civil defense isn't just bunkers, stockpiled food, or preparing for the end of the world.

At its most practical level, civil defense is ordinary people developing the knowledge, equipment, organization, and skills necessary to keep themselves, their families, and their communities functioning during emergencies.

A resilient neighborhood is made up of households capable of handling routine problems without immediately adding another call to an already overloaded emergency-response system.

Food matters.

Water matters.

Communications matter.

First aid matters.

Fire protection matters too.

The goal isn't to fight a structure fire yourself. The goal is to have the right tool immediately available when a small fire can still be stopped—and to evacuate when it cannot.

ServiceOutfitters Preparedness Recommendation

We recommend keeping more than one fire blanket rather than storing a single blanket somewhere in the house.  Every person that lives in the house should each have one! 

Consider placing one in the kitchen and additional blankets near the garage/workshop, emergency cooking equipment, RV, vehicle, or other higher-risk areas.

Emergency equipment only helps when you can reach it quickly.

Important Safety Notice

A fire blanket is an additional fire-safety and preparedness tool, not a replacement for working smoke alarms, appropriate fire extinguishers, an evacuation plan, or professional fire services.

Never remain in a dangerous or rapidly developing fire in an attempt to extinguish it. If a fire cannot be safely controlled immediately, evacuate, warn others, close doors behind you when practical, and contact emergency services as soon as possible.

Follow the manufacturer's instructions and applicable fire-safety guidance.

California Proposition 65 Warning: This product carries a California Proposition 65 warning for cancer and reproductive harm.

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