EPFD Open House

EPFD (and EPPD) hosted their annual Open House yesterday. Besides a the weather (blanket of snow, wind and 30 degrees) we still had a few thousand people come through! The event would not have been as successful if it were not for all different organizations that provided volunteers (above and beyond EPFD) including CenterPoint Energy, LifeLink Helicopter, HCMC ambulance service, CERT (community emergency response team); MN State Fire Marshall for Sprinkler and Kitchen Fire Demo’s and many more.

I think one of the most exciting parts to the day was for the crowd to see how quickly we actually respond to real incident. During the middle of the day we had a (real) kitchen fire that took half the department (T41, E41 & E21) to respond. It was ‘cool’ for the group to see how quickly we transitioned from public educators to public service. (The good news it the responding squads knocked down the fire before it extended beyond the kitchen.

Great Demonstrations including two car fires & extrications, what happens in a kitchen grease fire when you add water (not good) plus EPPD showing how to properly secure car seats.