Cooking Safety Starts With YOU! Fire Prevention Week 2023

Heather Ainsley ECB Publishing, Inc. Next week is National Fire Prevention Week, which began in 1922. This observance takes place in the United States and Canada each year during the Sunday to Saturday week of Oct. 9. The first Presidential proclamation of Fire Prevention Week was made in 1925 by President Calvin Coolidge, and the day is internationally sponsored by the National Fire Protection Association. When President Coolidge gave his proclamation, he noted that in the year prior, around 15,000 lives were lost to fire in the United States alone. He went further to say that such a staggering loss was startling, and in his proclamation stated, “This waste results from the condition