(KNSI) – The St. Cloud Fire Department is hosting an open house on October 11th in honor of Fire Prevention Week.
Captain and Interim Fire Marshal Anthony Lorenz told KNSI News they are holding the open house as a way to “interface with the public in a non-emergency setting. That is the whole intent of the exercise. We’re going to have a sprinkler demonstration. We’ll show the fire station. We’ll have personnel on the scene to walk people through the fire station. We will have some auto extrication, commonly referred to as the jaws of life, where we cut a parked car, we will have a little demonstration of that, and we’ll have some light refreshments.”
The event is free. The doors to Fire Station #3 will be open to the public from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Fire Prevention Week is held the second week of October in memory of the Great Chicago Fire which killed around 300 people and destroyed roughly 17,500 buildings, and burned more than 2,100 acres.
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