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<p style="font-weight:bold; display: inline; line-height:150%; font-size: 105%;">Columbia Fire Department<br />
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Columbia, MO 65201
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<h2 style="font-size: 200%;">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</h2>
<p style="font-size: 120%; margin-top: -5px; font-weight:bold;">October 6, 2016</p>
<p style="float:right; font-weight:bold; margin-bottom: 75px; font-size: 120%; text-align:right;">CONTACT: Assistant Fire Chief Brad Fraizer
<br />Office 573-874-7557, Monday through Friday 8am - 5pm</p>
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<div class="content"><span style="padding-left: 50px;">(COLUMBIA, MO)</span> - <p style="display: inline;">The Columbia Fire Department and Columbia Professional Fire Fighters will kick off Fire Prevention Week 2016 at the Columbia Mall on Sunday, October 9 from 1:00pm - 3:00pm in the parking lot by the Sears / Dillards wing.</p>
<p>Members of the Columbia Fire Department, Columbia Police Department, Community Emergency Response Team, Red Cross, Safe Kids Coalition, Boone Hospital ambulance service, University Hospital ambulance service, Women's and Children's Hospital ambulance service and Firehouse Subs will be on-hand. </p>
<p>Festivities include:</p>
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<li>Junior Fire Fighter Combat Challenge that gives small children a chance to put on kid sized fire fighting gear and navigate an obstacle course with fire fighters. </li>
<li>Live fire demonstration at 2:00pm</li>
<li>Free barbequed hot dogs while supplies last</li>
<li>Firehouse Subs while supplies last</li>
<li>Columbia Fire Department's Patches and Pumper</li>
<li>Columbia Police Department's McGruff the Crime Dog</li>
<li>Fire truck bounce house</li>
<li>Children's games</li>
<li>Face painting</li>
<li>Free smoke detectors while supplies last</li>
<li>Fire truck tours</li>
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<p>This years Fire Prevention Week Theme - 'Don't Wait, Check the Date' Replace smoke alarms every ten years. Working Smoke Alarms Save Lives, Test Yours Every Month. For more information visit us on the web at - www.como.gov/fire/ , Facebook at Columbia, MO Fire Department or contact the Columbia Fire Department's Fire Marshal's Division at 573-874-7556.</p></div>
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