Fire Prevention Week

This years fire prevention week was a major success with firefighters (and some ESS personnel) involved in a variety of activities. Beginning with an open house at the Fire Station on Thursday it was estimated that between 250 and 300 persons came to visit. While Sparky the Fire Dog and Puff the Fire Clown keep the kids (and adults) entertained with balloon animals and high fives there were many other things to do as well. Trying out the fire hose was very popular as was a jump in the bounce house. The ladder truck was demonstrated and the big Canada Day flag was a great way to draw people in. Dozens of bags of popcorn were handed out and we went through 7 dozen hot dogs. And while this was going on, a crew still managed to take the Otter Point FD down to Mariners to spend a couple of hours going through our expectations of what we would want them to do if a major event were to occur.

Thanks to leg work by Neil, the Pizza Delivery teams did a great job (well most of you) Thanks to support from Andys 2 for 1 Pizza and Sooke Home Hardware firefighters tagged along with the pizza delivery guy for a special incentive. If you agreed to let the firefighters into your home and let them test your smoke alarm (and it worked) you would get a 50% off your next pizza coupon. If it did not work, crews would install a new battery for you. If you had no detector, then a new unit would be supplied and installed. What a great program and great PR.

Then on Saturday, Fire and ESS personnel set up a home safety display at Sooke Home Hardware. Hundreds of people stopped by to ask questions on fire extinguishers, smoke alarms, emergency preparedness and even look at the 72 hour emergency kit.

All in all a great FPW for 2011. Thanks to all those that assisted and made these events so great.