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Fire prevention is the best way to fight a fire.

It's often said that 'an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure'. This especially holds true when it comes to accident and fire prevention.

The Fire and Life Safety Educators for the fire department have written a number of articles on keeping you home and family safe.  A list of the articles is below.

8-16-11 National Preparedness Month
2-21-11 Poison Proof Your Home
12-22-10 Home Heating Safety
12-22-10 Carbon Monoxide 101 Quiz
10-13-10 Safety Steps for Wintry Weather
10-13-10 Unintentional Home Injury in the United States
8-16-10 Home Safety Checklist
7-26-10 Falls Prevention
2-11-10 Radon Risk in Our Homes
1-18-10 - Carbon Monoxide and Home Fire Risks
1-5-10 Fire Safety with Home Oxygen Therapy
12-16-09 Home Safety Checklist
12-16-09 Install Inspect Protect smoke alarms
11-23-09 Fire Safety Tips
10-19-09 Deck the Halls this Holiday Season
10-19-09 Home Fire Sprinklers
8-20-09 Fire Prevention Quiz
8-17-09 Know Your Alarms
7-6-09 Safety Tips for Adults
5-12-09 Baby Safety
5-4-09 Escape Planning
4-20-09 Electrical Safety
3-13-09 Home Fires: The Big Picture
1-16-09 Fire Safe Cigarettes
12-31-08 MN State Statute on Carbon Monoxide Alarms
12-19-08 Residential Sprinklers
10-9-08 Ringing in the Holidays Safely
10-9-08 Holidays and Beyond
10-9-08 12 Days of Christmas
9-17-08 FM Global Grant
9-17-08 Fire Prevention Week News Release
9-17-08 Open House Flyer
8-21-08 National Preparedness Month
8-21-08 Disturbing New Trends in Childhood Burns
7-14-08 Juvenile Firesetters
7-9-08 Safe Steps to Reduce Falls
6-3-08 Fireworks
5-28-08 Garages
5-13-08 June is Home Safety Month
5-13-08 Bike Safety
5-13-08 Backyard Safety
4-9-08 Safe Boating is No Accident
4-9-08 Residential Fire Alarms System
3-21-08 Electrical and Gas Appliance Safety in Your Home
3-21-08 Weathering the Fury of Spring Storms
2-9-08 If you Smoke
1-11-08 Radon Risk in Our Homes
12-17-07 Winter Time Home Safety Practices
10-12-07 Keeping the Fireplace Burning Safely
9-11-07 Fire Prevention Month Quiz 2007
9-10-07 A Senior Fire Prevention Plan
8-13-07 The Time to make a Family Safe Escape Plan is Now
7-17-07 Home Safety Taking Steps of Action
6-27-07 Safe Celebrations
5-23-07 Home Safety month press release
5-14-07 June Home Safety Month
4-17-07 Alcohol and Smoking
4-17-07 Scald Burns
3-5-07 Will your smoke alarm wake you and your family in the middle of the night
2-19-07 Kitchen Fires
1-25-07 To have flame or not to have flame
1-15-07 Senior Safe Driving
1-15-07 Car Seats
1-2-07 Ice Safety Recommendations
12-15-06 Your Guide to Outdoor Winter Safety
12-8-06 Preventing the Unthinkable Chimney Fire
10-18-06 Entering the Holiday season Safely
10-18-06 Safety with your recreational fires
10-18-06 A new law for carbon monoxide and what it means for your safety
9-11-06 Fire Prevention Week
8-27-06 Are you and Your Family Prepared
8-1-06 Defending your home space from fire
7-17-06 Safety under the Sun
7-17-06 Children and Fire
6-12-06 Water the Silent Danger
6-5-06 Home Safety Month for the Life
5-22-06 Spring into safety
5-15-06 Home Safety Month
5-9-06 Burn Prevention news release
4-21-06 Playground Safety is no game
4-3-06 Cigarettes Fires, What you need to know
4-3-06 Spring Time Home Electrical Safety
3-16-06 Bike Helmets and sales event
3-13-06Weathering the Fury of Spring Storms
3-13-06 Children Poisonings, Getting to the Cause
1-31-06 Smoke Alarms
1-26-06 Booster Seats
1-17-06 Seniors at Risk
1-9-06 Fire Safety of Impaired Citizens
1-3-06 Fire Safe Cigarettes
1-3-06 Winter Hazard Awareness for Children
11-29-05 Winter Driving and Survival Tips
11-23-05 Winter Weather Windchill Chart
11-23-05 OEC Our Star Youth in Action
11-13-2005 Keeping Unwanted Fires out of Our Winter Season
10-3-05 The Ingredients for cooking without fire

 





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