Health/Safety
Health inspection reports: May, 2015
Each week the city of Garland Health Department conducts inspections of establishments where food is served. Inspections include day care centers, retirement homes, school cafeterias, restaurants - fast food and dine-in, convenience stores, and grocery stores. A...
Garland takes aim at post-flood mosquito problem
Due to heavy rains and flooding, the mosquito population is booming in north Texas. The city of Garland Health Department is taking an aggressive approach toward tackling that problem. The Environmental Health division is suspending most routine activities to focus...
GFD shares clothes dryer safety tips
The Garland Fire Department, in an effort to promote safety, shares National Fire Protection Agency tips on various subjects. Below are their suggestions for clothes dryer safety.
GFD provides safety tips
Electricity has become one of our basic needs and Garland Fire Department is encouraging you to get grounded in the basics of electrical safety. According to the nonprofit National Fire Protection Association, electrical fires were involved in an estimated annual...
Health inspection reports: April, 2015
Each week the city of Garland Health Department conducts inspections of establishments where food is served. Inspections include day care centers, retirement homes, school cafeterias, restaurants - fast food and dine-in, convenience stores, and grocery stores. A...
Driving under the influence carries high price
It’s an exciting time for high school students with prom season rolling in and many seniors about to graduate. However, it’s a dangerous time to succumb to peer pressure. When hundreds of teens are together at an event such as prom, one’s decisions don’t seem too...
Health inspection reports: March, 2015
Each week the city of Garland Health Department conducts inspections of establishments where food is served. Inspections include day care centers, retirement homes, school cafeterias, restaurants - fast food and dine-in, convenience stores, and grocery stores. A...
Careful pesticide use essential
Everything put down household drains is carried by sewer lines to wastewater water treatment plants whether that plant is equipped to treat it or not. This is why it is inappropriate, illegal in fact, to put chemicals like pesticides down household drains. Tests show...
Change clocks, smoke alarm batteries
According to the National Fire Protection Agency, two-thirds of home fire deaths result from fires in homes without a working smoke alarm. I.A.F.F. Local 1293 firefighters remind you to change the batteries in smoke alarms when you change your clocks for Daylight...
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