The Chesterton Fire
Department will be kicking off Fire Prevention Week as it always does, with
its annual Lights and Sirens Parade and Open House, on Saturday, Oct. 8.
The
parade--featuring emergency vehicles only--will step off from the CFD
station at 10 a.m. and travel east on Broadway to South Calumet Road.
Marchers will then hang a right and go south to West Porter Ave., hang
another right and go west to South Eighth Street, and finally take another
right and then north back to Broadway.
The open house will
begin immediately after the parade and go until 1 p.m. Firefighters will be
giving tours of the station, demonstrating equipment and apparatus, and
giving kids a chance to spray a fire house. Both the smoke house and a
bounce house will be open for business and there’ll be refreshments and
giveaways.
Fire Prevention
Week
The first Fire
Prevention Week was held in 1922, to commemorate the Great Chicago Fire of
Oct. 8-9, 1871, which killed more than 250, left 100,000 homeless, and
destroyed more than 17,400 structures on 2,000.
The theme of the
2016 Fire Prevention Week, now organized by the National Fire Protection
Association (NFPA), is “Don’t Wait: Check the Date! Replace Smoke Alarms
Every 10 Years.”
What the NFPA wants
folks to know:
* Smoke alarms
should be replaced every 10 years.
* Know how old all
the smoke alarms in your home are.
* The date of a
smoke alarm’s manufacture is printed on the back of the alarm. The alarm
should be replaced 10 years after that date.