TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. —
The Tinker Air Pressure Base Fireplace and Emergency Providers noticed the one hundred and first annual Fireplace Prevention Week October 8-14, 2023, serving to to coach Airmen, kids and households about the way to keep protected in case of a hearth.
Fireplace Prevention Week takes place every year throughout the week of Oct. ninth in accordance with the Nationwide Fireplace Safety Affiliation to commemorate the “Nice Chicago Fireplace” of 1871. The week of observance can also be used to coach communities on the significance of fireside security.
This 12 months’s theme is “cooking security begins with you.” With the assistance of the fireplace division and the bottom our surrounding neighborhood is supplied schooling as an effort to drastically lower casualties brought on by fires.
“We’re like your pleasant fireplace security coach, hoping you will take away sensible data on stopping fires and defending your family members,” stated Jason McKnight, Assistant Fireplace Chief of Well being and Security. “It is all about providing you with the instruments to be your loved ones’s security hero.”
The bottom fireplace division and ‘Sparky the Fireplace Canine’ labored to unfold the phrase throughout the neighborhood with visits on base together with the 72nd Air Base Wing headquarters constructing, Tinker Youth Heart, Base Change, the Oklahoma Metropolis Air Logistics Advanced and native Baby Growth Facilities.
College students at Tinker Elementary Faculty additionally acquired a go to from firefighters October 11. Tinker Fireplace Engine 4 stopped by for college kids to take an image in entrance of, meet Sparky the Fireplace Canine and expertise what it was like to make use of a hearth hose. College students additionally acquired fireplace prevention goodies earlier than heading again to the classroom.
“My favourite a part of Fireplace Prevention Week is after we interact with kids, answering their curious questions, letting them discover fireplace vans, and watching their eyes mild up as they spray water from the fireplace hose,” stated McKnight. “Seeing their pleasure and pleasure makes this week particular—it is about inspiring the subsequent era to be fireplace security champions.”
Fireplace officers encourage all residents to embrace the 2023 Fireplace Prevention Week theme, and affords these key security suggestions to assist cut back the dangers of a cooking fireplace:
– At all times hold an in depth eye on what you might be cooking.
– Flip pot handles towards the again of the range.
– At all times hold a lid close by when cooking and if a small grease fireplace begins, slide the lid over the pan and switch off the burner.
– Have a kid-and pet-free zone of no less than three ft across the range or grill and wherever else sizzling meals or drink is ready or carried.
To study extra about Fireplace Prevention Week or fireplace and residential security, go to https://www.nfpa.org/fpw.
