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Fire prevention in Red Deer all about education
Fire safety in Red Deer goes be-yond a one-week event. Crews work to spread awareness all year long, said Shane Dussault, fire prevention officer with the City of Red Deer’s Emergency Services.
Since 2005, Red Deer Emergency Services have been running its Home Safety Program, a free service where personnel visit residences and offer a fire and injury home safety check.
They have been to 30,114 homes in Red Deer — 3,441 in 2013 — since then and handed out or installed 6,576 smoke alarms and 2,024 batteries.
The goal is to have less than one destructive fire per 1,000 people. The provincial average is 1.4 fires per
1,000. In 2013, there were 0.66 fires per 1,000 in Red Deer.
New this year is the city’s Af-ter the Fire Program, which targets neighbourhoods that have recently witnessed a fire. This service also in-volves home safety inspections and free smoke alarm installations along with sharing safety tips and how to prevent more property damage trag-edies.
The program has ran once so far, in the Lancaster area after the improper disposal of a cigarette in a peat moss plant lead to a fire earlier this sum-mer.
The public are invited to kickoff fire prevention week on Saturday, October
4 at Fire Station No. 1 at 4941, 46th St. from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. A burn-ing room demonstra-tion will also be taking place to show how much difference in damage a sprinkler can make.
FIRE PREVENTION WEEK 201 4SOUND THE ALARM to save lives
Look up! This year’s Fire Prevention Week, running from October 7 to 13, is all about those crucial circular devices on your ceiling.
It’s plain and simple: smoke alarms save lives. According to the Office of the Fire Commissioner, most fire deaths in Alberta happen in homes, especial-ly at night when people are asleep. They don’t die from flames but from inhaling the smoke and other toxic gases.
The shrill warning blast of a working smoke detec-tor can prevent this.
It is recommended you check your smoke alarms once a month as batteries die or someone can take them out when cooking.
The Alberta Fire Code requires all homes in the province to have working smoke alarms.
Other smoke alarm mes-sages include:
Install smoke alarms in every bedroom, outside
each separate sleeping ar-ea and on every level of the home, including the base-ment.
Interconnect all smoke alarms throughout the home. This way, when one sounds, they all do.
Test alarms at least monthly by pushing the test button.
R e p l a c e a l l s m o k e alarms when they are 10 years old or sooner.
Make sure everyone in the home knows the sound of the smoke alarm and un-derstands what to do when they hear it.
Fire Prevention Week started in 1922 as a way to commemorate the tragic 1871 Great Chicago Fire that killed more than 250 people, left 100,000 home-less, destroyed more than 17,400 structures and burned more than 2,000 acres.
For more information, visit www.fireprevention-week.org.
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2013 RED DEER FIRE STATS:
To t a l d e s t r u c t i v e residential fires – 27
Properties where smoke alarms went off – 48
Propert ies with no smoke a l a rms or m i s s i n g o r d e a d batteries – 7 (48 people put at risk)
Shane Dussault, fire prevention officer, talks all things smoke alarm-related at station 1 in downtown Red Deer
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Many Sacrifi ces You Make on Many Sacrifi ces You Make on Behalf of Our Community!Behalf of Our Community!””
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Intergovernmental Relations403-340-3565
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FIRE PREVENTION WEEK 2014
By Renée Francoeur
There’s no preventing the fires burning up this sultry Red Deer initiative. City firefighters launched their steamy 2015 calendar earlier
last month at a special, ladies-only event at Bo’s Bar and Grill. It was all oiled bods, cowboy hats and tool belts among hoots, hollers and dozens of selfies.
If you missed out on snagging a copy of 14 months of rippled bi-ceps and chiseled chests, it’s not too late. Sales are still on and ex-pected to continue well beyond the Christmas season, retailing for $20 each. About 2,000 copies have been printed.
“Every single dollar goes to charity,” Dan Henschel, chair of the Red Deer Firefighters’ Chil-dren Charity, said. The groups they support include the Food Bank, the Boys and Girls Clubs of Red
Deer and District and Women’s
Outreach, just to name a few.
The first Red Deer firefighters
calendar rolled out in 1988, said
Henschel and this year’s calendar
features one of the firefighters
who premiered in that edition: Ray
Keith.
In fact, three of the calendar
boys are over the age of 50 — you
wouldn’t know it though by looking
at them, said Henschel.
“They’re all just shredded.”
The calendar raised around
$46,000 last year. The group hopes
to gather closer to $50,000 by Janu-
ary.
“The funniest part is in the fire
hall when you’re eating lunch, you
can tell who’s doing the calendar
because they have the salads and
tiny pieces of chicken and protein
shakes,” Henschel said. “They get
pretty jacked up.”
Red Deer firefighters selling calendar for charity
BURNING UP the months
last m
Like what you see?
To get a copy of your calendar stop by Bo’s, The Bra Lounge, Lash
Diva, Bond Nutrition Inc., Original Joe’s or Massage
Above All.
You can also visit reddeerfirefighters.org/
charity/calendar or check out their Facebook page:
Red Deer Firefighter Charity Calendar for more
information.
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Fifteen male Red Deer firefighters bared their chests for charity in the new 14-month calendar for 2015.
Glenn Carritt signs a copy of the calendar for a fan during the launch event Photos courtesy of Kurt Stenberg Photography
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TYPES OF SMOKE ALARMSTYPES OF SMOKE ALARMSFrom the Office of the Fire
Commissioner and the National Fire Protection
Association1.) Ionization – generally more
responsive to flaming firesThe smoke chamber in an
ionization alarm emits a small amount of radiation that ionizes the air within the smoke cham-ber. This ionization process cre-ates a weak electrical current that is sensed by the detector’s cir-cuit. When tiny particles of smoke drift into the chamber, the par-ticles reduce the electrical cur-rent flow, which triggers the cir-cuit and turns on the alarm. In an ionization alarm, humidity, dust, vapours, cooking activities and air velocity can set off a nuisance alarm.
2.) Photoelectric – generally more responsive to smoldering fires
When smoke enters the cham-ber in a photoelectric alarm, light from a small lamp in the device is interrupted and scattered. The scattered light falls onto a pho-tosensitive cell, which creates a small electrical current. When enough particles enter and scat-ter light on the photosensitive cell
the circuit will trigger the alarm. Photoelectric alarms are also less prone to sound nuisance alarms due to cooking activities and are recommended for installation near kitchens.
The National Fire Protection Association recommends
using both kinds of detectors for the best
protection. Smoke alarms for the
hearing impairedAlerting Devices for the hear-
ing impaired notify individuals of a smoke or fire danger by trans-mitting a warning signal that can be seen, in the form of strobe light flashes, and/or felt, in the form of vibrations on watches and body receivers as well as beds.
An alternative smoke alarm de-vice, called “The Scent of Life,” releases a pungent aerosol spray while it emits a strobe light flash.
These devices are activated when a signal is sent from the ‘horn sound’ of a smoke alarm to a central receiving unit, which transmits the alternative signal. This signal can be sent on a wire or by radio waves.
FIRE PREVENTION WEEK 2014
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Downtown4202 Gaetz Avenue
403-346-3518DQ Grill & Chill1939 Gaetz Avenue
403-343-6645Deer Park
30 Avenue & Dunlop St.
403-342-6200North Hill
#21, 6791 Gaetz Avenue
403-347-4141
PlanYour Escape Route: Draw a fl oor plan of
your house and all
room exits.
Practise your
evacuation routes.
Have a meeting spot
outside that everyone
is familiar with.
4 locations to serve you
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0J2
7606
2J2Fire Alarm Inspections & MaintenanceFire Alarm Inspections & Maintenance
403.358.2221403.358.2221 7634
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Preventive Preventive MaintenanceMaintenanceis the Key tois the Key toFire SafetyFire Safety
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OF
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K6
74 (in Alberta)ooney
76345J2
Does your family have a home escape plan?
Do your children know how to call 911?
Doea h
Do
A Big THANK YOU to Red Deer Emergency
Services Firefi ghters who assist us with our Fire & Home Safety Program
SSS
Phone: (403) 314-9914 Fax: (403) 346-1004 [email protected]
www.safetycity.ca
For additional information contact
Safety City 3030 - 55 Street
Red Deer, Alberta T4P 3S6 Located at the Junction of
Hwy. 11 East and 30 AvenueLearning About Fire Safety
76345J2
““Thank You for Your Thank You for Your Commitment and for the Commitment and for the
Many Sacrifi ces You Make on Many Sacrifi ces You Make on Behalf of Our Community!Behalf of Our Community!””
Cal DallasMLA Red Deer SouthLegislative Secretary
Intergovernmental Relations403-340-3565
Mary Anne JablonskiMLA Red Deer North
Deputy Chair ofCommitees
403-342-2263
7634
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FIRE PREVENTION WEEK 2014
By Renée Francoeur
There’s no preventing the fires burning up this sultry Red Deer initiative. City firefighters launched their steamy 2015 calendar earlier
last month at a special, ladies-only event at Bo’s Bar and Grill. It was all oiled bods, cowboy hats and tool belts among hoots, hollers and dozens of selfies.
If you missed out on snagging a copy of 14 months of rippled bi-ceps and chiseled chests, it’s not too late. Sales are still on and ex-pected to continue well beyond the Christmas season, retailing for $20 each. About 2,000 copies have been printed.
“Every single dollar goes to charity,” Dan Henschel, chair of the Red Deer Firefighters’ Chil-dren Charity, said. The groups they support include the Food Bank, the Boys and Girls Clubs of Red
Deer and District and Women’s
Outreach, just to name a few.
The first Red Deer firefighters
calendar rolled out in 1988, said
Henschel and this year’s calendar
features one of the firefighters
who premiered in that edition: Ray
Keith.
In fact, three of the calendar
boys are over the age of 50 — you
wouldn’t know it though by looking
at them, said Henschel.
“They’re all just shredded.”
The calendar raised around
$46,000 last year. The group hopes
to gather closer to $50,000 by Janu-
ary.
“The funniest part is in the fire
hall when you’re eating lunch, you
can tell who’s doing the calendar
because they have the salads and
tiny pieces of chicken and protein
shakes,” Henschel said. “They get
pretty jacked up.”
Red Deer firefighters selling calendar for charity
BURNING UP the months
last m
Like what you see?
To get a copy of your calendar stop by Bo’s, The Bra Lounge, Lash
Diva, Bond Nutrition Inc., Original Joe’s or Massage
Above All.
You can also visit reddeerfirefighters.org/
charity/calendar or check out their Facebook page:
Red Deer Firefighter Charity Calendar for more
information.
DO
c
CC
Fifteen male Red Deer firefighters bared their chests for charity in the new 14-month calendar for 2015.
Glenn Carritt signs a copy of the calendar for a fan during the launch event Photos courtesy of Kurt Stenberg Photography
S P E C I A L A D V E R T I S I N G F E A T U R E
We are proud to support our Central
Alberta Fire Fighters!www.thecoverallshop.ca
7610 Edgar Industrial Drive,Red Deer, AB
403-314-0346
7634
7J2
7634
9J2
LTD.
Working safely with the community.
• Red Deer
• Camrose
• Stony Plain
• Hinton Complete ASPHALT Service
Quality Service
Value Since 1955
We salute our brave firefighters and all the support staff
for their courage and dedication.
7606
0J2403-343-1177403-343-1177WE ARE HONOURED
TO SUPPORT THE RED DEER FIRE FIGHTERS6500 - 71 Street, Red Deer
Phone: 403-347-8544 Fax: 403-346-4650
7633
9J2
Earl Dreeshen, MPRed Deer
Our thanks to our firefighters
for their courage and dedication
to protecting our community
Suite 100A, 4315 55th Ave., Red DeerPh:403-347-7426 Fax: 403-347-7423
www.earldreeshen.ca 7634
4J2
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Insure your home and family are protected by speaking to one of our knowledgeable agents about the appropriate coverage for your situation. • HOMEOWNER • COMMERCIAL • RENTERS • AUTO
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TYPES OF SMOKE ALARMSTYPES OF SMOKE ALARMSFrom the Office of the Fire
Commissioner and the National Fire Protection
Association1.) Ionization – generally more
responsive to flaming firesThe smoke chamber in an
ionization alarm emits a small amount of radiation that ionizes the air within the smoke cham-ber. This ionization process cre-ates a weak electrical current that is sensed by the detector’s cir-cuit. When tiny particles of smoke drift into the chamber, the par-ticles reduce the electrical cur-rent flow, which triggers the cir-cuit and turns on the alarm. In an ionization alarm, humidity, dust, vapours, cooking activities and air velocity can set off a nuisance alarm.
2.) Photoelectric – generally more responsive to smoldering fires
When smoke enters the cham-ber in a photoelectric alarm, light from a small lamp in the device is interrupted and scattered. The scattered light falls onto a pho-tosensitive cell, which creates a small electrical current. When enough particles enter and scat-ter light on the photosensitive cell
the circuit will trigger the alarm. Photoelectric alarms are also less prone to sound nuisance alarms due to cooking activities and are recommended for installation near kitchens.
The National Fire Protection Association recommends
using both kinds of detectors for the best
protection. Smoke alarms for the
hearing impairedAlerting Devices for the hear-
ing impaired notify individuals of a smoke or fire danger by trans-mitting a warning signal that can be seen, in the form of strobe light flashes, and/or felt, in the form of vibrations on watches and body receivers as well as beds.
An alternative smoke alarm de-vice, called “The Scent of Life,” releases a pungent aerosol spray while it emits a strobe light flash.
These devices are activated when a signal is sent from the ‘horn sound’ of a smoke alarm to a central receiving unit, which transmits the alternative signal. This signal can be sent on a wire or by radio waves.
FIRE PREVENTION WEEK 2014
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