Upper Darby Fire Department held their annual Fire Prevention parade and demonstration today. The parade started at Westbrook Park Elementary school and proceeded down to station-74 where there were some presentations made and demonstrations. All 5 Upper Darby Companies, Clifton Heights, Norwood, Prospect Park, Leedom, Bethel, Lower Chi, Darby Twp-76, Llanerch, Bon Air, Briarcliffe, Darby Boro-04, Aston Beechwood, East Lansdowne, & Lansdowne Fire Companies all participated along with the Upper Darby Marching Royals, And the 2 middle school bands. A demonstration of a vehicle take down and repelling was put on. They also had many hand outs and the smoke house for children to go through

All 5 Haverford Companies held their annual Fire Prevention open house Friday night. Each Company had numerous informative and educational pamphlets and give aways. Smoke houses, stop drop & roll, tunnels, and live burn demonstrations were also used to educate both young and old who turned out.

Norwood Fire Company held their rescheduled open house/demonstration at the Norwood Elementary school. Numerous other companies from the surrounding area participated in the night. The normal hand outs, kids squirting the hose, helmets, pretzels etc were all there. They then held a live burn on a mock 2 room house with furnishings, and an A frame roof. It showed the crowd of well over 300, how quickly a fire can spread, the intense heat it can generate and how the fire fighters put the fire out.

I'm only going to make this one folder for now. Instead of making a folder for every open house I may make it to. These will be pictures from various Fire Houses during fire prevention week 2006. So far I've been to Briarcliffe, Lansdowne, & Folcroft. Some events were rained out Wednesday at Collingdale & Norwood but are to be rescheduled. Number of pictures is limited at some stations due to running around and time. Brookline, Oakmont & Manoa were added to this list on Friday night the 13th. I will try to attend the rescheduled events for both Norwood & Collingdale. Norwood will be this Wed the 18th.

The Haverford Township Bureau of Fire held it's annual open house night for Fire prevention week. Displays of equipment, stop drop & roll, Tower Bucket rides, Videos, & candle safety were done at the various fire houses of the HTBF. Handouts for Fire Safety, kids helmets, and smoke detectors were also available.

Upper Darby kicked off Fire Prevention week with a parade from Highland Park to Drexel Hill Middle school, to raise awareness of Fire Prevention Week. This years theme is Candle Safety.