Fire Safety for Your Family

For 25 years, Energizer and the IAFC have been spreading the life-saving reminder to change the batteries in your smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors when you change your clocks for the end of daylight saving time.

Cal City preschoolers get fire safety lesson

CALUMET CITY | Two firefighters from the Calumet City Fire Department recently visited the Lil' Geniuses preschool program at the Calumet Memorial Park District to teach the children about fire safety.

Cakl City preschoolers get fire safety lesson

Calumet City firefighters visited with preschoolers recently. From left are firefighter Pam Eanes, Jaliah Burton, Kameron Godden, Isabella Kooma, Amber Shirley, Jahari Wallace, Merlanni Jackson, Madecyn Chess and firefighter Steve Drew.

Lansing Fire Department teaches Reavis students fire safety

Lansing firefighter Pete Chmura demonstrates the danger of lighters to kindergarten students at Reavis Elementary School during their visit to the Fire Safety House. The program provided by the Lansing Fire Department features a mobile miniature house in which students learn the dangers of s…

Lansing Fire Department teaches Reavis students fire safety

LANSING | Reavis Elementary School kindergarteners took a trip to the Fire Safety House recently to learn all about fire safety rules.

Pets could turn stoves, decor into fire hazards

A beloved pet dressed in a Halloween costume, posed next to a lit jack-o-lantern, sounds like a great photo opportunity, but it's also a fire hazard.

Open house teaches fire safety

GRIFFITH | In honor of Fire Prevention Week, the Griffith Fire Department will host its annual open house from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday at Station 3, Ridge Road and Indiana Street.Admission is free.

Glenwood fire chief warns against dryer fires

Glenwood firefighter Joe Zelek installs a smoke alarm in the home of Latosha Wiggins, left, of the 400 block of Arizona Avenue in Glenwood, following a house fire in the home of her cousin, Janice Blackwell, right, who lives on the same block. The fire started in her dryer, fire officials sa…

Dryer hazards prompt warning

GLENWOOD | A house fire last week in the 400 block of Arizona Avenue provided Fire Chief Kevin Welsh with an opportunity to educate the public during Tuesday's Village Board meeting.

Skillman supports new cap on Statehouse entry

INDIANAPOLIS | Lt. Gov. Becky Skillman doubts a newly imposed cap on public entry to the Statehouse will have much impact during the legislative session that begins Wednesday.

South suburban fire departments help protect families from fires

DOLTON | There was a structure fire Dec. 10 on Manor Drive in Dolton and several local fire departments recently helped Dolton firefighters install smoke alarms in all of the neighboring homes on that street.

South suburban fire departments help protect families

Firefighter Gordon Taylor, of the Dolton Fire Department, poses with resident Annette Rift Wright, a resident of Manor Drive, where a fire damaged a home recently. Firefighters used the incident to offer residents smoke alarms and safety tips. No one was injured in the fire.

Scouts get fire safety tips

CHICAGO | Cub Scouts of Pack 773, who meet at Annunciata Parish on the city's East Side, spent an afternoon with Chicago firefighters of Engine 104 learning fire prevention and safety tips.

Scouts get fire safety tips

Scouts from the East Side recently learned fire safety. In back, from left, firefighter Royal Robinson, Allie Provo, David Meduga, Jacob Kusar, David Quijano, Mika Quijano, Alex Garcia, Eric Godinez, Jaime Avila, Michael Ice and firefighter David Kusar. In the front are Brendan Provo, Daniel…

Sirens a hit with students

SCHERERVILLE | Sirens weren't the only things squealing recently at Forest Ridge Academy.

Lansing students learn fire safety

Lester Crawl kindergartners sing along with Pluggie, "Stop, Drop and Roll," during their visit.

Lansing students learn fire safety

Preschoolers Hannah Dugan and Jacob Wieck show off the fire hats they made prior to visiting the Lansing Fire Station No. 2.

Lansing students learn fire safety

LANSING | Students at Lester Crawl School learned about fire safety recently during Fire Prevention Week.

Lansing firefighters visit Coolidge students

LANSING | Two Lansing firefighters, engineer/paramedic Tom Langdon and firefighter/paramedic Chad Kooyenga, visited Coolidge School to teach fire safety to children in kindergarten through second grade.

Lansing firefighters visit Coolidge students

Lansing engineer/paramedic Tom Langdon gets assistance from Jarelly Palacios on how to test and use a smoke alarm in Karen Rentfro's second-grade class at Coolidge School in Lansing.