“Smoke
Alarms: A Sound You Can Live With!” is NFPA’s
official theme for
Fire
Prevention Week (FPW) 2010, October 3-9, 2010. If
you’re wondering why NFPA, the official sponsor of FPW
for nearly 90 years, is focusing on smoke alarms when
most homes already have at least one, you've come to the
right place!This year's
campaign is designed to educate people about the
importance of smoke alarms and encourages everyone to
take the steps necessary to update and maintain their
home smoke alarm protection.
"Reproduced from NFPA's
Fire Prevention Week Web site, www.firepreventionweek.org.
©2010 NFPA."
Fire Prevention Week was established to commemorate the Great Chicago Fire, the tragic 1871 conflagration that killed more than 250 people, left 100,000 homeless, destroyed more than 17,400 structures and burned more than 2,000 acres.
The fire began on October 8, but continued into and did most of its damage on October 9, 1871.
In 1920, President Woodrow Wilson issued the first National Fire Prevention
Day proclamation, and since 1922, Fire Prevention Week has been observed
on the Sunday through Saturday period in which October 9 falls. According
to the National Archives and Records Administration's Library Information
Center, Fire Prevention Week is the longest running public health and safety
observance on record. The President of the United States has signed a proclamation
proclaiming a national observance during that week every year since 1925.
For more information about Fire Prevention Week 2010,
please visit the official NFPA website at www.firepreventionweek.org.
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