NEWS IN WEST SENECA FIRE DISTRICT 2

October 09, 2010

Video 1 - Fire Prevention Video 2 - Fire Prevention Video 3 - Fire Prevention

Fire Prevention Union Fire Company took to the District schools the week of October 03, 201o to promote an annual message to children; Fire Safety. Unions Fire Prevention Coordinator Lynn Kaplewicz, assisted by firefighters, would visit Clinton and Northwood Elementary Schools and Fourteen Holy Helpers School, while students from St. Johns Community School would visit the fire hall for their session. The theme for this year's Fire Prevention Week: Smoke Alarms: A sound you can live with. Each year in October since 1922, the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has sponsored the fire prevention campaign to emphasize the importance of fire safety to inspire individuals to take action to prevent fires and avoid the deaths, injuries, and destruction they cause.  In 2008, home fires killed 2,755 people and injured 13,160. Two of every five home fire deaths were in a home with no smoke alarms and another one in five was in a home where the smoke alarms were not working. This year's theme aims to educate the public on how smoke alarms save lives and why they should be installed and maintained in every home. Having working smoke alarms can cut the chances of dying in a fire in half. The theme will focus on how to choose, install, and maintain smoke alarms.  NFPA has taken the lead in public fire safety outreach by serving as the official sponsor of Fire Prevention Week for 88 years. The annual public awareness and safety commemoration, which is proclaimed by the President of the United States each year, is observed by fire departments in the U.S. and Canada to mark the anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. 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. Please visit the newly launched Fire Prevention Week website www.firepreventionweek.org for safety tips, statistical information, and more. The materials are available for use by fire departments, teachers, families and anyone interested in learning or teaching about fire safety. Kaplewicz has been administering the Fire Prevention presentations at Union Fire Company for many years, each year she composes a new presentation on a level with the age group she is attempting to educate.