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Since it began in 1922, Fire Prevention Week has taken place in early October to raise awareness of fire prevention.
Fire Prevention Week, October 6 - 12, 2024
Join us in celebrating Fire Prevention Week! This year's campaign, "Smoke alarms: Make them work for you!" works to educate our community about simple but important actions, they can take to keep themselves and those around them safe from fires. Whether you are at home, at the cottage or trailer, if you pay attention to fire prevention, you and your family are prepared in advance. Have a plan for everyone in your home. Children, older adults and people with disabilities may need assistance to wake up and get out. Make sure that someone will help them!
Open House Event - September 28th, 2024 10 am to 2 pm
Cambridge Fire Department is excited to host our annual Open House. Join us on September 28, 2024 from 10:00 am - 2:00 pm at Fire Station 1, 1625 Bishop Street North.
This year's event will include, cooking safety demonstrations, live auto extrication demonstrations, fire escape planning activities for adults and kids, food vendors, an inflatable fire safety house tour, and Jr. firefighter games. Come meet our firefighters, Sparky and Beeper mascots, and get up close for a tour of our fire trucks.
Today's homes burn faster than ever. You may have as little as two minutes (or even less) to safely escape a home fire from the time the smoke alarm sounds. Your ability to get out of a home during a fire depends on early warning from smoke alarms and advance planning.
Smoke alarms sense smoke well before you can, alerting you to danger. In the event of fire, you may have as little as 2 minutes to escape safely, which is why smoke alarms need to be in every bedroom, outside of the sleeping areas (like a hallway), and on each level (including the basement).
Choose an alarm that is listed with the Underwriters Laboratories of Canada (ULC), meaning it has met the standards for protection.
For the best protection, use combination smoke and carbon monoxide alarms that are interconnected throughout the home. These can be installed by a qualified electrician, so that when one sounds, they all sound. This ensures you can hear the alarm no matter where in your home the alarm originates.
