Lara

A writer by passion and profession, I honed my editorial and writing skills over the past 8 years working as a freelance music journalist in the UK before moving into content creation and curation in Dubai. After a 2-year career detour in music content management for Youtube Music, I returned to writing and joined the Think With Google team as a MENA editor. More recently, I decided to embark on an exciting journey, as a content pioneer for UK/Dubai based start-up, Media Quest. When I'm not at my desk, I run my own blog: https://fadmade.com/

How to effectively prevent home jacking?

3 September 202210 August 2022 by Lara

A phenomenon on the rise You may be familiar with car jacking, which consists of stealing a car, but do you know Home Jacking? It consists of entering a dwelling while the owners are inside. An incredible situation, even improbable a few years ago, this type of intrusion represented more than 3,400 attacks in 2017 …

How to effectively place a smoke detector

3 September 20228 August 2022 by Lara

What is the law around smoke detectors? Since 2015, the law is final, you have the obligation to install at least one smoke detector or DAAF in your home. If this regulation seems strict, it does not however provide for penalties for offenders. Thus, you remain free to equip yourself or not with this equipment …

The right actions to limit the risk of domestic fires Fire prevention: the right actions

3 September 20226 August 2022 by Lara

Les bons gestes pour éviter les incendies

Monitoring of electrical devices This may seem obvious in theory and yet we sometimes do it in practice: do not leave the hotplates on unattended! An accident happened so quickly. Furthermore, it is strongly recommended to avoid leaving electrical equipment on standby. Sockets should also not be overloaded with high-power devices. In fact, the risk …