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Help increase awareness about holiday fires in your community with these messages and free materials.
Here you’ll find messages, graphics, stock photos and videos to help you increase community awareness about holiday fire safety.
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Christmas trees account for hundreds of fires each year. Typically, shorts in electrical lights or open flames from candles, lighters or matches start tree fires. Well-watered trees are not a problem. A dry and neglected tree can be.
This dramatic video demonstrates what happens when fire touches a dry tree and a properly maintained, well-watered tree. Please share this video on your website and social media networks.
The Exchange serves as a centralized location for national, state and local fire prevention and life safety practices and public education materials that organizations may wish to share with other communities. Visit the Exchange for outreach materials on holiday, Christmas tree, and candle fires.
The U.S. Fire Administration recommends the following organizations as trusted and reliable sources for free outreach materials you can use to help prevent home fires in your community during the holiday season.
