Fire Prevention Week kicks off in Calgary
Posted Oct 3, 2014 11:59 am.
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Fire Prevention Week is upon us.
On Sunday, the campaign officially kicks off but fire officials gathered Friday at their training facility in the city’s S.E.
If this campaign seems familiar, there’s a reason for it.
Fire Chief Ken Uzeloc said they make sure to drill this message home every year.
“Smoke alarms save lives. We know this, it’s been proven, it’s been demonstrated. Early detection of a possible event by smoke allows a family to get out of the house in those first two to three minutes” he said. “The message is getting through. When we do our blitzes we see lots of homes that have smoke alarms, the problem is we don’t see lots of homes that maintain these smoke alarms and that’s one of the other pieces of this message”
Uzeloc said that includes changing batteries at least once a year and replacing hard wired detectors every ten years.
He said every family needs to have a plan to get out of the home in case an emergency strikes.
