Borough of Hatboro Fire Marshal

This weekend we change the clocks!! Change your batteries in those smoke detectors!!!

Thank you to all our first responders! Hatboro Borough Police Department Enterprise Fire Company of Hatboro Second Alarmer's Association and Rescue Squad of Montgomery Montgomery County Department of Public Safety

Post a picture in the comments of your jack-o-lantern!!

Do you have a CO detector?? November 1st as you change the clocks remember to change your batteries in your smoke and CO detectors! #detectorssavelifes #efc95

Today is the day!!!! Tonight at 7pm we will be live with the members of Enterprise Fire Company of Hatboro on Facebook! Today’s tip! Parents have you talked to your children about calling 911? When calling 911, the most important information the dispatcher will ask for is WHERE your emergency is! As long as they know WHERE the emergency is they can send help. Starting off with the location of your emergency will help our friends at Montgomery County Department of Public Safe...ty. Sometimes when calling 911 from a cell phone, you may hit off a Bucks County tower and reach Bucks County 911. If this happens, tell them it’s for Montgomery county, give them the location of the emergency, your name and phone number and they will transfer you to Montgomery county. Did you know...you could also text 911 as well??

DID YOU KNOW?! The inspiration behind the national recognition of Fire Prevention Week is the Great Chicago Fire of Oct. 9, 1871. Burning for nearly 27 hours, this fire killed more than 250 people, destroyed more than 17,400 buildings and left 100,000 homeless. According to popular legend, the fire broke out after a cow -- belonging to Mrs. Catherine O'Leary -- kicked over a lamp, setting first the barn, then the whole city on fire. Chances are you've heard some version of th...is story yourself; people have been blaming the Great Chicago Fire on the cow and Mrs. O'Leary for more than 130 years. But recent research by a Chicago historian has helped to debunk this version of events. Like any good story, the case of the cow has some truth to it. The great fire almost certainly started near the barn where Mrs. O'Leary kept her five milking cows. But there is no proof that O'Leary was in the barn when the fire broke out, or that a jumpy cow sparked the blaze. Mrs. O'Leary herself swore that she'd been in bed early that night, and that the cows were also tucked in for the evening. Forty years later, fire marshals across the country decided to recognize a fire prevention day, to educate the public and pass along valuable fire safety messages to prevent another great fire from occurring. Finally in 1922, the nation’s fire officials decided to recognize an entire week in October whichever week the ninth falls in as Fire Prevention Week, and to encourage communities to use this time to learn more about preventing such fire tragedies large and small. https://youtu.be/VZhvbmqYniA

Parents do you and your kids have a special meeting spot outside in case of an emergency?? If not at dinner tonight talk about one! It can be a tree, the mail box, a neighbors house. Just remember don’t cross the street unless you have too! If you do have a meeting spot, how about practicing it tonight!

Fire prevention week is here!! Did you know? Cooking is the #1 cause of home fires and home fire injuries. Unattended cooking is the leading cause of fires in the kitchen.... Remember this Friday night at 7pm myself and the members of Enterprise Fire Company of Hatboro will be hosting a Facebook live event!

NEXT WEEK IS FIRE PREVENTION WEEK!! This year due to COVID-19 Enterprise Fire Company of Hatboro is not able to hold their annual open house or visit schools like in years past. So the fire company and I will be doing a facebook live event on Friday October 9th at 7pm!! We’ll talk about fire safety, watch a firefighter get dressed up in their gear, maybe a visit from sparky, and a Q&A with some of the borough’s bravest men and women from Enterprise Fire Company!!... Also check our facebook page for fire safety tips and fun facts about the fire service and fire prevention!!

We promised that we would never forget. Manhattan box 5-5-8087 9/11/01 0847- Bat 1 transmits second alarm box 22-8087 for a plane into WTC Engine 10 transmits 10-60... 0848- Bat 1 transmits the third alarm box 33-8087 0903- Marine 6 transmits the urgent second tower hit by second plane. Car 4-David verifies 0958- Marine 3 transmits the urgent for partial collapse of Tower 2 0959- Manhattan calls field com with no answer Marine 6 transmits the urgent for the complete collapse of Tower 2 1028- Engine 33, Marine 3, Engine 289, and Engine 236 transmits the urgent for the complete collapse of Tower 1 Total response for FDNY was 121 engines, 62 trucks, all squads and rescues and Haz Mat 1, and multiple Marine units. 343 firefighters were lost along with 37 Port Authority Police Officers, 23 NYPD officers, and 8 EMTs. The equivalent of 25 alarms were transmitted and 96 fire apparatus were lost in the collapse.