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Elkford Fire Rescue participates in Fire Prevention Week
The B.C. government declared October 12, ‘Smoke Alarm Awareness Day.’
Smoke Alarm Awareness Day encourages families, schools, workplaces and all British Columbians to take responsibility to protect themselves and those in their care by promoting the use and regular testing of residential smoke alarms in every B.C. home. By being smoke alarm aware, all British Columbians can help ensure that they and their families are better protected in their homes from fires.
Elkford Fire Rescue is a partner in the smoke alarm campaign, which was launched in March 2012 with the goal of ensuring every B.C. home has and maintains a working smoke alarm. The campaign is the vision of the Fire Chiefs’ Association of BC, and is supported by the Office of the Fire Commissioner, a number of provincial public health organizations and private companies, and almost 50 communities.
During Fire Prevention Week, Elkford Fire Rescue visited every classroom in the Elkford Elementary School bringing awareness to this year’s Fire Prevention Week campaign, ‘Have Two Ways Out.’
Elkford Fire Rescue hosted an open house on Saturday, October 13 where smoke alarms were given away as door prizes and a garage sale was held to raise funds for the Elkford Food Bank.
As a result of sales from the garage sale, Elkford Fire Rescue provided a donation of $195 to the Elkford Food Bank and the Elkford Firefighters Association donated an additional $205, bringing the total to $400. Elkford Fire Rescue also donated 24 smoke alarms to the Food Bank for families in need.
Above image: Elkford Fire Rescue Chief Fire Chief Bernie Van Tighem (right) provides a tour of the department’s fire training hall, opened last spring, to Columbia Basin Trust CEO Neil Muth and community liaison Jennifer Krotz earlier this summer. Featuring a series of metal ocean shipping containers designed to allow for a wide range of training exercises, the training hall was erected for only $185,000, with some of the funds coming from CBT. Ian Cobb/e-KNOW
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