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SOUND 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, especially 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 detector 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 messages include: Install smoke alarms in every bedroom, outside
each separate sleeping area and on every level of the home, including the basement. 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. Replace all smoke alarms when they are 10 years old or sooner. Make sure everyone in the home knows the sound of the smoke alarm and understands 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 homeless, destroyed more than 17,400 structures and burned more than 2,000 acres. For more information, visit www.firepreventionweek.org.
Shane Dussault, fire prevention officer, talks all things smoke alarm-related at station 1 in downtown Red Deer
Fire prevention in Red Deer all about education Fire safety in Red Deer goes beyond 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 After the Fire Program, which targets neighbourhoods that have recently witnessed a fire. This service also involves home safety inspections and free smoke alarm installations along with sharing safety tips and how to prevent more property damage tragedies. 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 summer. 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 burning room demonstration will also be taking place to show how much difference in damage a sprinkler can make.
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2013 RED DEER FIRE STATS: Total destructive residential fires – 27 Properties where smoke alarms went off – 48
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Properties with no smoke alarms or missing or dead batteries – 7 (48 people put at risk)
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Fifteen male Red Deer firefighters bared their chests for charity in the new 14-month calendar for 2015.
BURNING UP the months
Red Deer firefighters selling calendar for charity
TYPES OF SMOKE ALARMS
By Renée Francoeur
the circuit will trigger the alarm.
alarms are also less From the Office of the Fire Photoelectric prone to sound nuisance alarms to cooking activities and are Commissioner and the due recommended for installation National Fire Protection near kitchens. Association The National Fire Protection 1.) Ionization – generally more Association recommends responsive to flaming fires The smoke chamber in an using both kinds of ionization alarm emits a small amount of radiation that ionizes detectors for the best the air within the smoke chamber. This ionization process creprotection. ates a weak electrical current that is sensed by the detector’s circuit. When tiny particles of smoke drift into the chamber, the particles reduce the electrical current flow, which triggers the circuit 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 chamber in a photoelectric alarm, light from a small lamp in the device is interrupted and scattered. The scattered light falls onto a photosensitive cell, which creates a small electrical current. When enough particles enter and scatter light on the photosensitive cell
There’s no preventing the fires burning up this sultry Red Deer initiative. City firefighters launched their steamy 2015 calendar earlier month at a special, ladies-only last m 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 biceps and chiseled chests, it’s not too late. Sales are still on and expected 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’ Children Charity, said. The groups they support include the Food Bank, the Boys and Girls Clubs of Red
Smoke alarms for the hearing impaired Alerting Devices for the hearing impaired notify individuals of a smoke or fire danger by transmitting 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 device, 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.
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 January. “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.”
Like what you see?
Glenn Carritt signs a copy of the calendar for a fan during the launch event Photos courtesy of Kurt Stenberg Photography
To get a copy of your calendar stop by Bo’s, The Bra Lounge, Lash D Bond Nutrition Inc., Diva, OOriginal Joe’s or Massage Above All. You can also visit reddeerfirefighters.org/ ccharity/calendar or check out their Facebook page: Red Deer Firefighter CCharity Calendar for more information.
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A Big THANK YOU to Red Deer Emergency Services Firefighters who S assist us with our Fire & Home Safety Program
Draw a floor plan of 1939 Gaetz Avenue your house and all 403-343-6645 room exits. Deer Park Practise your 30 Avenue & Dunlop St. evacuation routes. 403-342-6200 Have a meeting spot North Hill outside that everyone #21, 6791 Gaetz Avenue 403-347-4141 is familiar with.
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FIRE PREVENTION WEEK 2014
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Fifteen male Red Deer firefighters bared their chests for charity in the new 14-month calendar for 2015.
BURNING UP the months
Red Deer firefighters selling calendar for charity
TYPES OF SMOKE ALARMS
By Renée Francoeur
the circuit will trigger the alarm.
alarms are also less From the Office of the Fire Photoelectric prone to sound nuisance alarms to cooking activities and are Commissioner and the due recommended for installation National Fire Protection near kitchens. Association The National Fire Protection 1.) Ionization – generally more Association recommends responsive to flaming fires The smoke chamber in an using both kinds of ionization alarm emits a small amount of radiation that ionizes detectors for the best the air within the smoke chamber. This ionization process creprotection. ates a weak electrical current that is sensed by the detector’s circuit. When tiny particles of smoke drift into the chamber, the particles reduce the electrical current flow, which triggers the circuit 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 chamber in a photoelectric alarm, light from a small lamp in the device is interrupted and scattered. The scattered light falls onto a photosensitive cell, which creates a small electrical current. When enough particles enter and scatter light on the photosensitive cell
There’s no preventing the fires burning up this sultry Red Deer initiative. City firefighters launched their steamy 2015 calendar earlier month at a special, ladies-only last m 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 biceps and chiseled chests, it’s not too late. Sales are still on and expected 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’ Children Charity, said. The groups they support include the Food Bank, the Boys and Girls Clubs of Red
Smoke alarms for the hearing impaired Alerting Devices for the hearing impaired notify individuals of a smoke or fire danger by transmitting 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 device, 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.
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 January. “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.”
Like what you see?
Glenn Carritt signs a copy of the calendar for a fan during the launch event Photos courtesy of Kurt Stenberg Photography
To get a copy of your calendar stop by Bo’s, The Bra Lounge, Lash D Bond Nutrition Inc., Diva, OOriginal Joe’s or Massage Above All. You can also visit reddeerfirefighters.org/ ccharity/calendar or check out their Facebook page: Red Deer Firefighter CCharity Calendar for more information.
Our thanks to our firefighters for their courage and dedication to protecting our community LTD.
• Red Deer e rvic e S • Camrose LT PHA S Quality A • Stony Plain ete Service l p Value • Hinton Com Since 1955
• HOMEOWNER • COMMERCIAL • RENTERS • AUTO
Ph: 403-343-6623
Doe your family have Does a home escape plan? h
PROUD SUPPORTER OF FIRE SAFETY WEEK
Do your children know how to call 911?
MOONEY INSURANCE LTD.
#115-5114 58 St. Red Deer • Fax: 403-341-4270 • 1-888-884-9948
4910 - 45th Street, Red Deer, Alberta T4N 1K6 K6 Local 403.342.5074 Toll Free 1.800.897.5074 74 (in Alberta) rogersinsurance.ca/mooney ooney
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For additional information contact Safety City 3030 - 55 Street Red Deer, Alberta T4P 3S6 Safety Located at the Junction of Hwy. 11 East and 30 Avenue
Phone: (403) 314-9914 Fax: (403) 346-1004 safetycity@telusplanet.net www.safetycity.ca
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Cal Dallas
MLA Red Deer South Legislative Secretary Intergovernmental Relations 403-340-3565
4 locations to serve you
Downtown
4202 Gaetz Avenue PlanYour 403-346-3518 Escape Route:
DQ Grill & Chill
www.thecoverallshop.ca
76350J2
403.358.2221
76062J2
Fire Alarm Inspections & Maintenance
76343J2
76349J2
76347J2
7610 Edgar Industrial Drive, Red Deer, AB
403-314-0346
MLA Red Deer North Deputy Chair of Commitees 403-342-2263
76345J2
Preventive Maintenance is the Key to Fire Safety
We are proud to support our Central Alberta Fire Fighters!
Mary Anne Jablonski 76346J2
76339J2
Insure your home and family are protected by speaking to one of our knowledgeable agents about the appropriate coverage for your situation.
76058J2
403-343-1177
WE ARE HONOURED TO SUPPORT THE RED DEER FIRE FIGHTERS 6500 - 71 Street, Red Deer Phone: 403-347-8544 Fax: 403-346-4650
We salute our brave firefighters and all the support staff for their courage and dedication. Working safely with the community. 76060J2
Suite 100A, 4315 55th Ave., Red Deer Ph:403-347-7426 Fax: 403-347-7423 www.earldreeshen.ca
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Earl Dreeshen, MP Red Deer
“Thank You for Your Commitment and for the Many Sacrifices You Make on Behalf of Our Community!” Community!”
A Big THANK YOU to Red Deer Emergency Services Firefighters who S assist us with our Fire & Home Safety Program
Draw a floor plan of 1939 Gaetz Avenue your house and all 403-343-6645 room exits. Deer Park Practise your 30 Avenue & Dunlop St. evacuation routes. 403-342-6200 Have a meeting spot North Hill outside that everyone #21, 6791 Gaetz Avenue 403-347-4141 is familiar with.