Fire Prevention Week

"Smoke Alarms: A sound you can live with" — that's the message of this year's Fire Prevention Week (FPW).

Activities

• We will attend hockey game Sunday Oct 3 and Captain Mike Hives will attend with his Pump Crew and help give out free fire prevention articles to children (at front lobby). Sparky and Chief Love will assist a female celebrity drop puck at beginning of game. Set up at 1730 to 1800 and give out free articles from 1800 to 1900 and game starts at 1900
• We will attend Nipissing Lakers hockey game Sunday Oct 9 and set up in front lobby to give out free fire prevention articles to the kids. Platoon Chief Greg Kraft will attend with his Pump Crew and help give out the free articles. Sparky and Chief Love will drop puck at beginning of game. Set up from 1430 to 1500 and give out free articles from 1500 till 1600 and game starts at 1600
• 32 Elementary Schools in North Bay will be visited during Fire prevention Week by Fire Crews to participate in a fire drill/evacuation
• On Saturday October, 9th there will be a Home Depot Kids Safety Day from 1000 to 1200 at the Home Depot and we will send one Fire Truck and Firefighters will hand out free fire prevention articles to kids.
• On Saturday October 9th one Fire Truck will be on display at Canadian Tire from 1330 to 1600 and Firefighters will hand out free fire prevention articles to kids and kids.

• The National Fire Protection Association says that interconnected smoke alarms provide the best protection. Interconnected smoke alarms are hard wired and connected in series at each level of the home, and if one goes into audible alarm, they all do. These devices are most important in larger or multi-storey homes where the sound from a distant smoke alarm may be reduced to the point that it may not be loud enough to provide proper warning, especially for persons sleeping. These devices can be hard wired by a licensed electrician and they also have a battery back-up feature
• Not only do we require smoke alarms at every level of our home and outside each sleeping area, but we also need to develop a home fire escape plan. We must teach our children what a smoke alarm sounds like and teach them how to escape the home before a fire occurs. We also need to establish a meeting place outside, at the front of the home and teach our family members to go there and stay there so that everyone knows that all family members got out safely
• In today’s homes there is an abundance of plastic and synthetic materials and these materials cause fires to burn hotter and faster than ever before. Therefore, we only have seconds to escape our home, so make sure a smoke alarms are mounted at the ceiling, at every level of the home and outside each sleeping area. Test your smoke alarms monthly by pressing the test button and replace the batteries twice a year – change your clock, change your battery
• A nuisance alarm is a smoke alarm that accidentally activates – usually because of cooking practices or steam from the shower and too often the response from the homeowner is to remove the battery or shut off the breaker, therefore leaving you and your family without protection. (very dangerous) The homeowner should either relocate the smoke alarm or purchase a smoke alarm with a “hush” feature and a button, when pressed will silence the alarm for several minuted and then re-set itself automatically.

Links

• Sparky
• Risk Watch
• Fire Prevention Week