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News Archive:
CHANGE YOUR CLOCK - CHANGE YOUR BATTERY
North Bay Fire & Emergency Services reminds citizens that this weekend when you
"Change your Clock – Change your Battery." Read More.
Heating Equipment – Time for a Checkup!
North Bay Fire & Emergency Services encourages you to give your furnace, fireplace
or woodstove a checkup to ensure that they operate safely and efficiently.
Read More.
Top Fire Safety Tips for Halloween Night
- Keep costumes short to avoid tripping and falling. Minimize the risk of contact
with candles or other ignition sources by avoiding baggy pants, loose frills or
billowing skirts.
- Make sure that children know how to call 9-1-1 or their local emergency number if
they experience an emergency.
- Teach children to STOP, DROP and ROLL should their clothing catch fire: STOP immediately,
DROP to the ground and cover face with hands and ROLL over and over to extinguish
the flames.
- Consider using only battery-powered lights or chemical light sticks in decorations.
- Small battery-powered lights are the safest for use in jack-o'-lanterns. If you
use a candle, try a tea light or votive candle in a non-combustible holder.
- Always keep candles, matches and lighters out of the reach of children.
- Place candlelit jack-o'-lanterns on sturdy surfaces, away from anything that can
burn, such as curtains and Halloween costumes.
- Keep decorations such as cornstalks and bales of hay away from candlelit jack-o'-lanterns.
- Ensure that electrical outlets are not overloaded with holiday lighting or special
effects.
- Check that the batteries in your smoke alarms work.
Read More
Fire Prevention Week 2009 - Open House and Trappers Hockey Game
See Photos from Fire Prevention Week 2009
NBFD Station #1 needs your help
The North Bay Fire Department needs your help for our 12th Annual Halloween Night
for families!
Once again this year we are having our Halloween festivities at Fire Station #1
and we are in great need of the following by October 28th:
- Lots and lots of wrapped candy and chips
- large decorations and pumpkins
- straw bales or rolls
- cash donations are also very much appreciated
- Don't forget to come by Station 1 on October 31st from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. and
enjoy the halloween festivities.
BY-LAW NO. 2009-193
Residential Fire Safety Awareness Program
North Bay Fire & Emergency Services– June 16, 2009 – City firefighters have begun
their annual ‘Residential Fire Safety Awareness Program’ which will target approximately
3,000 homes this summer. Read More...
FIREWORKS POSE SERIOUS RISK
NORTH BAY, June 26, 2009 – To celebrate this Canada Day, North Bay Fire & Emergency
Services does not recommend the use of fireworks. Read More...
Flying Lanterns Pose a Potential Fire Hazard
North Bay, June 8, 2009 – The Office of the Fire Marshal (OFM) has recently released
a warning on the existence of a consumer product that poses a serious fire safety
hazard. The Flying Lantern (also known as a sky lantern) is currently being sold
by Canadian online distributors of fireworks products and at retail stores.Read More...
Fire Marshal's Award
NORTH BAY - June 5, 2009 – Each year the Ontario Fire Marshal’s Office encourages
fire departments across the province to nominate an individual or organization which
has made a significant contribution to improve the level of fire safety in the community.Read More...
Emergency Preparedness Week - May 3-10
North Bay, ON - ‘Be Prepared’ – Emergency Preparedness Week is just around the corner,
May 3 to 9, 2009. The focus on what every family should know in the event of an
emergency and to be as self-sufficient as possible, during the first 72 hours during
an emergency; as many emergency services will be dealing with the larger scale emergency
during this time period.Read
More...
Open Air Burning Reminder
North Bay Fire & Emergency Services – April 17, 2009: With spring weather finally
here, many homeowners are cleaning up their yards and properties.Read More...
ATTENTION: NEWSROOMS
Every trailer, RV and mobile home should have working smoke alarms.On June 30, a
34-year-old man and two young children died in a fire in a trailer park in Essex,
Ontario. It has been confirmed by Office of the Fire Marshal investigators that
no working smoke alarms were found in the trailer.Read
More...
Potential Fire Hazard Due to Heat Recovery Ventilation Systems
The Office of the Fire Marshal and North Bay Fire & Emergency Services are advising
homeowners that homes with heat recovery ventilation (HRV) systems manufactured
by Venmar Ventilation Inc. may be at risk of fire. The thermal protector in the
motors of these systems can fail and pose a potential fire hazard. Read More...
Install Smoke Alarms: It's the LAW!
As of March 1st, 2006 every home in Ontario must have a working smoke
alarm on every storey and outside all sleeping areas.
IT'S THE LAW!
Website Award:
 Our web site won "Hot Site of the Month" for
the month of July 2001 at Firehall.com.
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