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Lights and Sirens Parade Saturday will kick off Fire Prevention Week

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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.

 

 

Posted 10/6/2016

 
 
 
 

 

 

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