MACOMB, IL – Fire Prevention Week – Day 5 Installing your smoke alarms correctly - and making sure that are in working order - is an important step to making your home and family safer from fire. For more information about installing and maintaining smoke alarms, check...
MACOMB, IL – Fire Prevention Week – Day 4 This NFPA video provides the latest information on types of smoke alarms you need, their placement and special features. Working smoke alarms give you early warning to help you escape a fire. You can also check out the...
MACOMB, IL – Fire Prevention Week – Day 3 Almost three of five (60%) of reported home fire deaths in 2007 to 2011 resulted from fires in homes with no smoke alarms or no working smoke alarms. Make sure yours are working; test them every month! For...
MACOMB, IL - Fire Prevention Week - Day 2 Did you know that many people don’t test their smoke alarms as often as they should? When there is a fire, smoke spreads fast. You need working smoke alarms to give you time to get out. Test...
MACOMB, IL -- Today is the beginning of Fire Prevention Week. Emmet - Chalmers Firefighters will be posting fire safety messages all week long. The theme for this year is: WORKING SMOKE ALARMS SAVE LIVES TEST YOUR EVERY MONTH Fire Prevention Week was established to commemorate the Great Chicago...
MACOMB, IL - On Saturday, September 27, 2014, Emmet - Chalmers Firefighters read books to children at First Bankers Trust - East Branch as part of the bank's 'Bank on Books Story Time'. New Copperfield's Bookstore provided firefighter themed books to be read. Firefighter also talked...
MACOMB, IL - First Bankers Trust Company will be hosting their 'Bank on Books' Story Time event on Saturday, September 27. New Copperfield's Bookstore provides books to be read at this fun, free event for children to enjoy. Emmet - Chalmers Firefighters will be be there...
MACOMB, IL - There have been a couple of new stories recently about poorly marked addresses in McDonough County. On September 5, 2014, both the McDonough Voice and WGEM News reported on an announcement at a recent county board committee meeting. The announcement stated a...
MACOMB, IL - On the September 3, 2014 broadcast of NBC Nightly News, there was a story about "Why Some Drivers Don't Get Out of the Way For Emergency Vehicles" Check out the story here: http://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/what-slows-down-emergency-responders-when-every-second-counts-n194126 Remember: Move Right for Sirens and Lights...
MACOMB, IL - Emmet - Chalmers Firefighters training on water shuttle operations and drafting pump operations. Water shuttle operations bring water to a fire scene with our Tender 7. The water is dumped into a portable tank, while Tender 7 goes to get refilled. With Drafting operations,...