WBCA Fire Prevention Week 2024

Learn about Fire Prevention Week 2024! We speak to Jake Wark, Public Information Officer for the Massachusetts Department of Fire Services about this year's theme, "Smoke Alarms: Make Them Work For You."

Fire Prevention Week is held annually on the week that contains October 8th, in commemoration of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. It is the longest running public health observance in the U.S., and has a Massachusetts connection—President Calvin Coolidge proclaimed the first Fire Prevention Week back in 1925!

For more information: https://mass.gov/dfs