 At Audiology Associates of Prestonsburg, you can live your life the way you want and find the freedom of better hearing. You'll experience patient care that is specific to you with exceptional follow-up care that ensures your hearing and balance needs are being met. Audiology Associates at 1428 Northlake Drive in Prestonsburg. With the holiday season soon approaching, Pikeville Fire Department is stepping in to remind everyone of winter fire safety. This includes properly handling heat sources, safely cooking Thanksgiving dinners, and preventing Christmas trees from combusting. These tips can prevent disaster from happening in the home. Right now, the temperature is changing. It's getting colder. People are going to start using more heat, different sources of heat. Space heaters are a big one. Space heaters, they use a lot of power, so more than one, you don't want to overload a circuit. And then make sure you've got plenty of space around them. You know, don't put them up next to curtains or tables or especially anything that's easily to catch on fire. Try to keep the heat away from it. Don't get anything close to it. And then you also got kerosene heaters or propane, a lot of that. Anything that needs to be filled, make sure you take it outside. Fill it that way. That way you don't, if you spill anything, you don't want to spill it inside the home. Then bring the heater back in and let it heat your home from the inside without having the fuel spill around it. People often become negligent while performing simple tasks, even if it is just cooking a family meal. It's important to make sure no appliances are left unattended or plugged in when not in use. There's many different ways that people have tried to cook their Thanksgiving dinners and some of them may not be the best. Use any traditional way, ovens, smokers, however you want to cook, whether it's a turkey, ham, whatever you choose to have for Thanksgiving dinner. Choose a traditional way to cook it and make sure it's safe. And then going into Christmas, anybody that has real Christmas trees, they get really dry, those dry pines. I mean, less than a minute to two minutes can change or light your whole living room up. So again, have plans in case something like that happens. Make sure you water those Christmas trees. That keeps them from being as dry. It will completely change the way that if a Christmas tree was to catch on fire, it completely changes the time on how long it will take to be fully involved in the whole tree. So water them daily, take good care of them, keep an eye on them and keep anything, whether it's a candle or heaters or anything away from them. Well, you don't have a chance on getting any kind of spark or heat near that tree. Reporting from Outant Top News, I'm Nick Colum.