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October is Fire Prevention Month

October is Fire Prevention Month

| October 1, 2012 | 0 Comments

This Year’s Theme is –  “HAVE 2 WAYS OUT” Commemorating a conflagration Fire Prevention Week was established to commemorate the Great Chicago Fire, the tragic 1871 conflagration that killed more than 250 people, left 100,000 homeless, destroyed more than 17,400 structures and burned more than 2,000 acres. The fire began on October 8, but continued […]

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