A busy week for the Okotoks Fire Department in this edition of the fire report.

After 15 calls last week, Fire Services were kept busy with 26 different responses.

Okotoks Fire Chief Ken Thevenot

Fire chief Ken Thevenot says they dealt with a couple of different kinds of fire calls.

"We attended 11 medical responses, three motor vehicle accidents, seven alarm system activations, one controlled burn, odour investigation, one fire was in an oven and we had one slope rescue and a hazardous material call."

Last week and this week have been busy for the Fire Department during Fire Prevention Week and Thevenot says during their open house Sat. Oct. 8 at the Milligan Drive station they were able to give those who came a real eye opener into what a fire fighter can go through on a daily basis.

"We were able to set-up a 20x20 tent, fill it with our smoke machine, use our thermal imaging camera and try to give the feel to our residents what it feels like to be a fire fighter to walk into a room full of smoke and to able to see with our thermal imagining cameras. Trying to introduce a lot of the tools we use out in the field."

During the open house, the department was dispatched to an motor vehicle accident which Thevenot says was also good to see how quickly his crew can go from being hands on with the community to helping assist the public at a moments notice.

"Anytime we do an event or anytime during our day we had a tool box talk prior to the event so we knew what vehicles we'd be taking, who would be responding on each of the vehicles and we had it pre-planned in the event that we get these calls."

This year's theme is 'Don't Wait, Check The Date' and local fire departments pushing home owners to make sure their smoke detectors are up to date and not expired.

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