"Protect Your Family From Fire!"
This year, our campaign is all about keeping you, your family, and your community safer from fire. You'll find educational material and tip sheets on the leading causes of home fires, information about protecting your home and families with life-saving technologies, and the importance of home escape planning.

For some information regarding houses with attached garages, and what you can do to improve your fire protection, click here.


Video public service announcements (PSAs) for Fire Prevention Week

Escape Plan - 15 seconds 

   




Get Low and Go - 30 seconds 



 

Smoke alarms - 15 seconds



In 2008

  • U.S. fire departments responded to 386,500 home fires.
  • Home fires killed 2,755 people and injured 13,160.
  • Someone was injured in a reported home fire every 40 minutes.
  • Roughly eight people died in home fires every day.
  • A fire department responded to a home fire every 82 seconds.
  • 83% of all fire deaths and 79% of fire injuries resulted from home fires.
Reproduced from NFPA's Fire Prevention Week Web site, www.firepreventionweek.org . ©2011 NFPA.
    Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service 2011    
 


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