Safety

Read this before you light anything

பட்டாசு கொளுத்தும் முன் இதைப் படியுங்கள்.

Storage. Keep the boxes in a cool, dry place away from the kitchen, the pooja lamp and any electrical point. Do not store them under a bed or on top of a wardrobe near a light fitting. Keep the whole stock in one place, closed, and take out only what you are about to light.

Do

Light crackers in an open space, well away from buildings, dry grass, vehicles and overhead wires.
Keep two buckets of water and a bucket of sand within arm's reach before you light anything.
Let one adult do the lighting. Everyone else — children included — watches from a safe distance.
Light at arm's length, using an agarbatti or a long taper, never a match held close.
Wear close-fitting cotton clothes. Loose synthetic dupattas and nylon catch fire fast.
Read the label on the box. Aerials, shots and rockets each have their own safe distance.
Soak every spent cracker in water before you throw it away.

Don't

Never re-light a cracker that did not go off. Wait 15 minutes, then soak it in water.
Never hold a cracker in your hand once it is lit — sparklers included, for small children.
Never light crackers inside a house, on a balcony, in a stairwell or in a narrow lane.
Never keep the stock box open beside you while lighting. One spark ends the evening.
Never put crackers in a pocket. Body heat and friction are enough to set some of them off.
Never let children handle atom bombs, paper bombs, rockets or repeating shots.
Never point a rocket or an aerial at a person, an animal, a window or a thatched roof.

If someone is burned

Put the burn under cool running water for at least 15 minutes. Cool water, not ice.
Do not apply toothpaste, ghee, oil, butter, ink or turmeric. They trap the heat and make the wound harder to treat.
Do not break blisters. Cover loosely with a clean, dry cloth.
For an eye injury, do not rub or rinse with anything but clean water, and go to hospital immediately.
For anything larger than a palm, or any burn on the face, hands or over a joint, go to hospital. Call 108 for an ambulance.

Green crackers and the law

We stock only green crackers, in line with Supreme Court directions. Where your town sets a permitted window for bursting crackers, please keep to it — and spare a thought for elderly neighbours, infants, people with asthma, and street animals, who have no way to get away from the noise.

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