Fire Prevention Week (October 4-8) is a great opportunity to review your department’s Code Red sub-plan. This year’s Fire Prevention Week theme is ‘Learn the Sounds of Fire Safety‘. Do you know what our Hospital’s Code Red alarm activation and notification sequence sounds like? Visit section 5.1 of the EMER-30 Code Red-Fire Alarm policy to better understand the different alerts and announcements associated with Code Red.

Remember, safety starts at home. By law, every home in Ontario must have a working smoke alarm on every storey and outside all sleeping areas however, too often fatal fires in Ontario occur in homes where there were no working smoke alarms.

Testing alarms produces a beep, the sound of alarms in an emergency. Replace the batteries if the alarms do not sound when the test button is pushed. If the alarms still don’t sound, replace the alarms.

Testing your alarms is the only way to ensure they are working and that you and your family can be alerted in the event of a fire.

For more information about home fire safety, visit Thunder Bay Fire Rescue: https://www.thunderbay.ca/en/city-services/fire-safety-education.aspx