This is Fire Prevention Week and Flin Flon Fire Chief Jason Kuras explains this year’s theme is Fire Won’t Wait, Plan Your Escape…..

“We’d like to encourage people to start to plan one particular escape route and a meeting point after the get out of the home that everybody in the house knows of, so it’s very important to not just make sure everybody’s out of the house but have a meeting place outside of the house that they can meet at and evaluate what to do from there.  We need to be notified at the Fire Department of an emergency in place so the next step is to make sure there’s a way to communicate to 911 dispatch that there’s a fire going on.  We’d like to encourage everybody and have everybody’s household members create a plan to make sure everybody gets out of the home safely, effectively and in as short a time as possible.”

He adds due to COVID restrictions they won’t be in the schools this week but they are planning a larger campaign for next year’s Fire Prevention Week.