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Right,
 so now what we're going to talk about 

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is tree
 safety and tree lighting safety as well.

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The importance of a live tree

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is making sure that it's properly
 hydrated at all times.

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So have your water bucket underneath
 and make sure that you're checking it daily 

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and you're topping it off as needed.

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A dry tree can easily catch fire.

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And so we just want to make sure
 that it's properly hydrated

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so you don't have any fire safety issues
 with a live tree.

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We have an artificial tree here,

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 and a lot of these are pre-lit,
 which is of huge benefit.

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However, some people like to add
 more lights to it like we did here

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and these ones, they're LED lights,
 which is great.

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They don't emit a lot of heat. 

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But if you have some of the older clients,

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those actually do emit
 quite a bit of heat.

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And so you really want to be mindful
 of those and make sure that you don't

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have a whole bunch of them
 in one particular area.

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It's going to generate a lot of heat
 and cause damage to your

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to your tree, maybe even possibly a fire.

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You'll also want to go through
 and you also want to check your wires,

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make sure that there's no cracks or tears
 or any damage

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that's been done to the wire,
 where the wires are now exposed.

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And then as you're checking the wires,
 make sure your bulbs are intact too.

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Some of these, you know, the tip
 can break off and it can be pretty sharp,

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and then it's
 got a little filament in there 

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and so the wires can be exposed as well,
 and that can be a fire hazard.

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So we want to make sure
 we check all those before we put them on.

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The next
 thing that we really want to look at is

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how do we plug everything in together
 underneath the tree?

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Let's go take a look. 

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Every single
 one of these light strands has,

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you know, a tag on it
 with the manufacturer's recommendations

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for how many strands
 you can actually plug into each other.

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And since they're all different,
 just make sure that you're reading yours,

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that some of them will say
 you can't have any more than three strands

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plugged into to each other like that. 

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So just be mindful of that. 

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And then a lot of people tend to use some
 some kind of weird,

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you know, extension cords
 and maybe even multiple prong adapters.

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And we just want to avoid those
 as much as possible.

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So we're just going to remove these out
 of here and clean it up a little bit.

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So we're going to remove these from here. 

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And then what we really want to do
 is we want to focus on

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plugging those directly into a plug bar.

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And it's got a safety circuit in there
 so that if there is an electrical issue,

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it'll trip at the plug bar and not
 actually affect your electrical system.

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And that's the safest way to do it. 

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And so now we've got them all plugged 

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in nice and neat into the plug bar
 and the plug bar

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is plugged directly into the wall
 and not another extension cord.

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That's the safest way.