MAFF-represented fire departments are joining the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) in celebrating National Fire Prevention Week. The theme this year is “Cooking safety starts with YOU.” Several area departments are hosting events during September and October in honor of National Fire Prevention Week, Oct. 8-14, 2023. Fire Prevention Week is observed on the Sunday through Saturday period in which Oct. 9 falls to commemorate the Great Chicago Fire of Oct. 8-9, 1871 that killed more than 250 people, left 100,000 homeless, destroyed more than 17,400 structures and burned more than 2,000 acres. Visit the National Fire Protection Association website for fire safety prevention tips and materials.
Departments hosting Fire Prevention public events include:
- Augusta Charter Township Fire Department Fire Safety Presentations
Time: Year-Round
Location: Area schools on request anytime.
Contact: Public Education Manager Brian Howell at (734) 461-9500.
By request, firefighters will provide fire safety presentations to area schools and work with area Boy and Girl Scout troops to help them obtain their merit badges in fire safety. - Augusta Charter Township Fire Department Open House
Time: Noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023
Location: New Fire Station, 10093 Whittaker Rd., Ypsilanti, MI 48191
Contact: (734) 461-9500
Huron Valley Ambulance and fire trucks on display. H.A.R.T. rehab mobile unit, which assists firefighters on the scene, and the Red Cross will be there with equipment including extrication tools. Children can make their way through a smoke house and visit the knock down area where they can use the fire hose. The event will feature hot dogs and chips and handouts for the kids as well as stickers and prizes. - Bedford Township Fire Department Open House
Time: 9 to11 a.m. Oct. 14, 2023
Location: Bedford Township Fire Training Facilty, 8100 Jackman Rd., Temperance, MI 48182
Contact: (734) 847-2359
Firefighters will provide a smoke house to help teach children how to get out of a house on fire, demonstrate a vehicle extrication, have fire equipment on display, and provide fire safety talks and handouts and answer questions. - Bruce Township Fire Department Open House
Time: 1-4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023
Location: Fire Station #1, 223 E. Gates, Romeo, MI 48065
Contact: (586) 752-2520
Firefighters will provide station tours, fire safety handouts and are planning to have a bounce house for children. They are working with Bruce Township’s Parks & Recreation Department and hope to have Halloween-related activities for the kids in Bruce Township Park, which is located behind the station. - Bruce Township Fire Department – Fire Safety Talks at Schools
Time: October 2023
Location: Area elementary schools, preschools and Montessori schools, churches and latchkey programs.
Contact: (586) 752-2520
Firefighters will visit children at area schools and churches to provide fire safety talks. School and church administrators should contact the fire department at the phone number listed above to arrange a visit. - Burton Fire Department Open House
Time: 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023
Location: All three city fire stations:
Station 1 - 2031 East Bristol Rd. Burton, MI 48509
Station 2 - Department Headquarters, 1320 S. Belsay Rd., Burton, MI 48509
Station 3 - 4515 Davison Rd. Burton, MI 48509
Contact: (810) 742-2158
Enjoy free hot dogs, chips, water, handouts and activities for children, including face painting (except for Fire Station 1) and balloon animals. Meet firefighters and tour the stations and trucks. Residents can sign up free smoke detector installs and reflective address signs will be available to order. A simulated house will allow children to use a fire hose to ‘knock down' pretend flames painted on the house. - Cambridge Township Fire Department Fire Safety Presentations
Time: Oct. 8-14, 2023 National Fire Prevention Week
Location: Onsted Community Elementary School
Contact: (517) 467-2128
Firefighters will visit Onsted Community Elementary School, grades kindergarten through second, to give fire safety presentations, participate in truck tours and go through the smoke trailer. After the presentations, the children make fire safety posters and submit them to their teachers. Each teacher chooses one student, based on their poster, as the winner. Later in the week, those students are picked up at school by a Cambridge Township Fire truck and given a ride back to the station to enjoy a pancake breakfast with firefighters. - Clay Township Fire Department for Schools
Time: October 2023
Location: Area Elementary Schools
Contact: (810) 794-9347
Firefighters will visit local elementary schools with their Fire Safety Smoke Trailer to provide a hands on fire safety experience, including show and tell on the fire truck. They will demonstrate and discuss fire safety with the students and show them a video inside the smoke trailer. After instruction, firefighters smoke up the trailer and the students practice safe fire escape through the windows and door. A firefighter will dress up in fire gear with a mask on so students see what they look like and hear how they sound to prevent them from being fearful of firefighters during a rescue. Students will also receive safety materials and coloring books. - Grand Rapids Township Fire Department Fire Safety in Schools
Time: October 2023
Location: Area elementary and preschools including: Knapp Forest Elementary, Orchard View Elementary, Collins Elementary, Knapp Charter Academy and Mayflower Preschool.
Contact: (616) 855-5808 to schedule a presentation.
Firefighters will provide fire safety education to preschoolers through second graders who will have a chance to see the fire truck, equipment and fire gear. - Highland Township Fire Department Open House & Pancake Breakfast
Time: 9 a.m. – Noon Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023
Location: Fire Station 1, 1600 West Highland Road, Highland, MI 48357
Contact: 248-887-8688
Enjoy a pancake breakfast with the firefighters, tour the station and learn about fire safety. Fire station tours are also available upon request at the phone number above. - Highland Township Fire Department Fire Safety Presentations
Time: Oct. 8-14, 2023 National Fire Prevention Week and October 2023
Location: Local elementary schools and preschools
Contact: (248) 887-8688
Firefighters will visit area elementary schools and preschools to educate children about fire safety. Interested schools should contact the fire department at the above phone number. - Health Fair 2023
Time: All day, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023
Location: Highland Activity Center, 209 John Street, Highland, 48357
Contact: Heidi at (248) 887-1707 for an appointment.
The Fire Department will have a booth setup to answer health questions, provide fire safety information and blood pressure checks. The event will also feature: Ask a Pharmacist, Medicare enrollment questions and answers, Glaucoma screenings, flu shots, medication disposal and hearing tests. - Macomb Township Fire Department Fire Safety for Children
Time: October 2023
Location: Area elementary schools and daycares
Contact: (586) 286-0027
Firefighters visit area elementary schools and daycares providing fire safety education. Children can see a fire engine and firefighters' gear and they are given fire safety coloring books and kids fire helmets. - Milford Fire Department Fire Safety Presentations
Time: Oct. 8-14, 2023 National Fire Prevention Week
Location: Area elementary schools, preschool co-ops and Montessori schools
Contact: (248) 684-2335
Firefighters are providing fire safety education and demonstrations to preschool through first graders with a focus on having an escape plan with their parents, including a family meeting place. New to the program will be a visit from Fire Pup. - Milford Fire Department Open House
Time: 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023
Location: 325 W. Huron St., Milford, MI 48381
Contact: (248) 684-2335
Visit the fire station and take a tour of the trucks. View fire extinguisher and vehicle extrication demonstrations and citizens can use the equipment. Visit different safety stations including checking vitals and trying on fire gear to see how much in weighs and what it feels like. Children can use the spray hose on the Fire House. See a lifesaving CPR demonstration and visitors can partake in free cider, donuts, hot dogs and popcorn. - Mundy Township Fire Department Open House
Time: 1-4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023
Location: Station 2, 4011 West Hill Rd. Swartz Creek, MI 48473
Contact: (810) 655-4327 or Chief Edward Blight at (810) 577-5453
See a Medstar EMS helicopter make a landing. Meet firefighters, police and ambulance crews, check out fire trucks and other emergency vehicles. Shoot water from a fire hose and watch firefighters use the “jaws of life.” Learn hands on fire safety including kitchen safety, escape plans, fire extinguisher use and more. The event will feature free food and, after children complete the fire safety stations, they turn in their punch card to enter a drawing to win a free bicycle from Meijer. - New Baltimore Fire Department Open House
Time: 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023
Location: Fire Department Hall at 36535 Green St., New Baltimore, MI 48047
Contact: (586) 725-0990 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays
Event will feature refreshments with donuts and cider with firefighters, fire truck tours, raffle opportunities, a live vehicle extrication event and emergency equipment on display. - New Baltimore Fire Department - Fire Safety at Schools
Time: October 2023
Location: Area elementary schools
Contact: (586) 725-0990 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays to schedule an event.
Students will be treated to fire safety presentations. The events will feature trucks on display and fire prevention literature. - Northfield Township Fire Department – Fire Safety at Schools
Time: Last week in September through the month of October 2023
Location: Area elementary schools and Livingston Classical Academy
Contact: Deputy Chief Brad Reynolds at (734) 449-2385
Firefighters are scheduling fire safety talks with area elementary schools and learning centers, which will feature fire trucks on display for show and tell. They have also scheduled a school assembly on fire safety for fifth through 12th graders at Livingston Classical Academy and are continuing to schedule visits with schools throughout the month of October. - Riverview Fire Department Fire Safety Talks
Time: October 2023
Location: Area elementary schools
Contact: Amy Dunn by email atThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Firefighters will visit area elementary schools with their fire truck by request for fire safety talks. There will be giveaways for the children and they will see what a firefighter looks like in full gear and sounds like when they enter a burning building to rescue someone. Please contact Amy Dunn at the above email for more details. - Riverview Fire Department Open House
Time: 1-5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023
Location: Riverview Fire Station, 18500 Civic Park Drive, Riverview, MI 48193
Contact: Amy Dunn by email atThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
This outdoor event will feature fire safety discussions and fire trucks will be on display and open for inside viewing. There will be cotton candy, free fire safety materials, including escape plans, and children’s giveaways include: pencils, hats, magnets, tattoos, trick or treat bags, and stickers. Giveaways for the adults include smoke detectors and carbon monoxide alarms along with medical information cards. - Rochester Hills Fire Department Open House
Time: 4 – 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023
Location: Rochester Hills Fire Station 1: 1111 Horizon Ct., Rochester, MI 48309 (Parking available on Horizon Ct. or enter via Rochester Industrial Dr. and park in the lot behind station at Auburn’s building.)
Contact: (248) 656-4717
Firefighters will perform live burn kitchen demonstrations, a vehicle extrication demonstration, and fire attack demonstration. The event features a fire apparatus display, various information tables, a video presentation about sleeping with your bedroom doors closed, a kids obstacle course, and raffles to win a children’s bicycle or a $150 Meijer gift card. There will also be cider and doughnuts from Yates Cider Mill! - Sumpter Township Fire Department Open House
Time: Noon - 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023
Location: Fire Station 1 – 20550 Sumpter Rd., Belleville, MI 48111
Contact: (734) 417-3361
Firefighters will provide a station tour, refreshments, games and fire prevention activities for children and adults alike. - Troy Fire Department Open Houses
Time: 1 – 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023
Location: Open houses will be held at all six fire stations:
Troy Fire Station #1 – 1019 E. Big Beaver
Troy Fire Station #2 – 5600 Livernois
Troy Fire Station #3 – 2400 W. Big Beaver
Troy Fire Station #4 – 2117 E. Maple
Troy Fire Station #5 – 6399 John R
Troy Fire Station #6 – 5901 Coolidge
Contact: (248) 524-3419
The events will feature fire safety demonstrations, with a focus on the national cooking safety theme, including: stove top fire, fire extinguisher demonstration and vehicle extrication. Fire trucks will be on display and open for entry as well as an ambulance service. The open houses will have giveaways and snacks. Ladder truck rides will be given at Station #1 and the Oakland County Sheriff's Department's helicopter will be landing at Station #2. - Van Buren Township Fire Department Pancake Breakfast & Open House
Time: 9 a.m. to Noon Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023
Location: Fire Station 2, 7981 Belleville Rd., MI 48111
Contact: (734) 699-8928
The event features a pancake breakfast, fire trucks on display, and a hands-on tour of the station featuring fire equipment and fire safety activities. - Walled Lake Fire Open House
Time: 8 a.m. – 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023
Location: 1499 E. West Maple, Walled Lake MI 48390
Contact: (248) 624-2088
Firefighters will provide an extrication demonstration with donated vehicles and are hoping to have a medical flight helicopter landing depending on weather conditions. The event will also feature cider and donuts, fire safety handouts, balloons, children’s fire helmets and coloring books. They are also planning to have a work station for children to build things with assistance from an area home improvement store. - Walled Lake Fire Department Fire Safety Presentations
Time: October 2023
Location: Area elementary schools
Contact: (248) 624-2088
Walled Lake Firefighters will be traveling to area elementary schools to educate children about fire safety. School personnel wishing to have a fire safety visit should contact the station for more information. - Washington Township Fire Department Open House
Time: Noon – 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 1, 2023
Location: Fire Station #1 – 11300 27 Mile Rd., Washington, MI 48094
Contact: (586) 781-6161, ext. 0
Children can enjoy the moonwalk, spray the fire hose, create crafts and get 'kids' tatoos. There will be station and truck tours. Guests can try on fire gear and learn fire safety with Blaze the Fire Dog. MedStar Life Flight helicopter will be landing at Noon. The event will also feature Macomb County Sheriff’s Department vehicles, free raffles, popcorn, hot dogs, lemonade and more. - Wixom Fire Department Open House
Time: 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct 14, 2023
Location: Wixom Fire Department Headquarters, 1345 N. Wixom Rd., Wixom, MI 48393
Contact: (248) 624-1055
The event will feature fire trucks on display, a fire extinguisher demonstration and vehicle extrication. Other event details are pending. - Woodhaven Fire Department Fire Safety Presentations
Time: Oct. 9-12, 2023
Location: Bates Elementary School, Weiss Elementary School, Erving Elementary School and Yates Elementary.
Contact: (734) 675-4918
Firefighters will visit the elementary schools to instruct children about fire safety.
