The National Fire Protection Association® (NFPA) and Joey Gase Motorsports, LLC are teaming up with the Concord Fire Department for the second year in a row to drive home the importance of fire safety during Fire Prevention Week™, October 6-12, 2024. The Concord Fire Department will be hosting an open house in coordination with NFPA, reinforcing the messages that support this year’s Fire Prevention Week theme, “Smoke alarms: Make them work for you!™”, including how to properly install, test, and maintain smoke alarms.
Featuring a series of fun, engaging activities, the event will be held at Fire Station 11, 8955 Weddington Road, Concord, NC on Thursday, October 10 from 4-7 p.m.
Open to the public, attendees will have the opportunity to meet Gase, who NFPA has sponsored during a series of NASCAR Xfinity Series race events over the past several months They’ll also have the opportunity to check out his race car, which will be on display at the fire station. Sparky the Fire Dog®, the official NFPA mascot, will be on-site to engage with guests as well. NFPA is sponsoring Gase and his number 35 race car emblazoned with an image of Sparky in the upcoming Drive for the Cure 250, taking place at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Saturday, October 12.
“Our work with Joey has demonstrated the value and impact of delivering potentially life-saving fire safety messages to thousands of NASCAR fans and surrounding communities,” said Lorraine Carli, vice president of Outreach and Advocacy at NFPA. “We’re thrilled to be teaming up with him and the Concord Fire Department once again this year, and to build on our efforts to promote basic but critical fire safety messages to the community.”
This year’s Fire Prevention Week theme, “Smoke alarms: Make them work for you” focuses on the importance of having working smoke alarms. According to NFPA’s latest smoke alarms report, smoke alarms reduce the risk of dying in a fire by more than half (60 percent). However, the majority of U.S. home fire deaths occur in homes with no smoke alarms or no working smoke alarms.
“It’s an honor to work with NFPA and help remind people that home fires can and do still happen, and that they need to be prepared in the event of one,” said Joey Gase, owner and driver for Joey Gase Motorsports. “My hope in working together is that we can motivate people to take action around home fire safety, which includes taking simple but important steps like making sure they have working smoke alarms in their homes and testing them regularly.”
Fire Prevention Week is celebrated throughout America every October and is the oldest U.S. public health observance on record. For more than 100 years, Fire Prevention Week has worked to educate people the risk of home fires and ways to minimize them. Local fire departments, schools, and community organizations play a key role in bringing Fire Prevention Week to life in their communities each year and spreading basic but critical fire safety messages.
For this release and other announcements about NFPA initiatives, research and resources, please visit the NFPA press room.
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