BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Football season is back in Baton Rouge and with it... tailgating.

“Of course, here in Baton Rouge, tailgating is one of our favorite traditions,” said Billy Zachary, public information officer with BRFD. “You don’t want a fun time to turn into an emergency.”

Zachary reminds fans to take caution while having fun.

“The space between your cooking appliance and the grill you want to maintain a distance of at least 10 feet,” detailed Zachary. “And be mindful of kids, pets, you want to keep a zone of about 3 feet around that cooking appliance to keep those kids and pets away.”

Zachary says that a quarter of burn injuries to children under five years old are due to touching a grill - so keep the little ones away as best you can.

Having a fire extinguisher nearby is

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