Fire Prevention Week for 2011 will be held October 9th - 15th
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 that occurred on October 8th 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.
Fire Prevention Week is held every year durint the week of Ocotber 9th.
Here are some Fire Prevention Links:
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