Home Safe Home for the Holidays: CPSC and Interior Designer Sabrina Soto to Promote Holiday Safety at Press Event

Event will Feature Several Live Fire Demonstrations and Q&A talk

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

Nov 19, 2019, 13:01 ET

BETHESDA, Md., Nov. 19, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), along with interior designer and HGTV/TLC personality Sabrina Soto, are holding a holiday safety press event on Thursday, November 21 at 10 a.m. in Rockville, Md.

Sabrina Soto and CPSC Commissioner Baiocco will talk about how to create a safer holiday season and highlight specific safety tips. New this year, CPSC will address three holiday safety categories: decorating, cooking and toys.

The event will share the latest data for consumer injuries and deaths sustained from toy, holiday decorating and holiday cooking incidents, feature best practices for avoiding incidents during the holiday season, and discuss how to purchase the safest toys as gifts for children this year. The event will conclude with several live demonstrations of household fires caused by unsafe practices involving holiday decorations, candles and cooking – including improper use of a turkey fryer.

WHAT:	Home Safe Home for the Holidays: Holiday Safety with CPSC, featuring several live fire demonstrations

WHO:	Dana Baiocco (bee-ah-ko), Commissioner, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

	Sabrina Soto, interior designer and host of TLC's Trading Spaces and While You Were Out; HGTV's The High Low Project

	Carla Coolman, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Spanish-language Spokesperson

WHEN:	Media check-in begins at 9:30 a.m. The event will begin at 10 a.m. Interviews are available in between fire demonstrations.

WHERE:	CPSC's National Product Testing and Evaluation Center
	5 Research Place
	Rockville, MD 20850

For more information about the event or to coordinate interviews, please contact Jessie Reape at 202-884-7325 or at [email protected]. Spanish-language interviews are also available with CPSC's spokesperson Carla Coolman.

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