For nearly 90 years the NFPA has sponsored fire prevention campaigns in the month of October. These campaigns are to stress the importance of fire safety and prevention to help avoid injuries and possible death. Well, just the other day the NFPA announced their theme for this October! The theme is Smoke Alarms: A sound you can live with! Just alone in 2008, home fires killed 2,755 people and injured 13,160. Most of these fires were in homes that had no smoke alarms or had smoke alarms were not working. Having working fire alarms can cut the chance of dying in half!
So mark your calendars! Fire Prevention Week 2010 is October 3-9. It’s not that far away!
