“It's
Fire Prevention Week. Protect Your Family From
Fire” is NFPA’s
official theme for
Fire
Prevention Week (FPW) 2011, October 9-15, 2011. This
year, the campaign is all about keeping you, your
family, and your community safer from fire.
You'll find fire safety
information on the following topics: Cooking,
Escape planning, Heating, Smoke Alarms, Home Fire
Sprinklers, Candles, Electrical, and Smoking by
visiting
www.firepreventionweek.org.
The E.S.C.A.P.E. Team including
Jake the Fire Safety Dog (www.jakethefiredog.org)
will continue its fire safety outreach efforts and
appearances and promote the 2011 Fire Prevention Week
theme throughout Michigan and Massachusetts from early
May through early November, 2011.
NFPA has been the official sponsor of FPW
for nearly 90 years.
"Reproduced from NFPA's
Fire Prevention Week Web site, www.firepreventionweek.org.
©2011 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 2011,
please visit the official NFPA website at www.firepreventionweek.org.
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