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Fire Prevention Week
Tue. Oct 15th 2019
The Winchendon Fire Department will be at the Memorial School and Toy Town Elementary this week teaching the children about fire safety.
Motor Vehicle Crash
Tue. Oct 1st 2019
Winchendon Fire & Police responded to a motor vehicle crash at the intersection of Grove St and School St. Three vehicle's were involved, with no injuries. The road was temporarily closed unti...
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Garage Fire on West St.
Thu. Mar 9th 2017
CAR FIRE ON 140
Mon. Nov 21st 2016
BRUSH FIRE
Thu. Nov 10th 2016
With winter around the corner please remember the woods are still very dry.
Use caution throwing away your ashes, and fully extinguish camp/cooking fires. The Winchendon Fire department fought a brush...
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Fire Prevention Tips

“Not every hero wears a cape. PLAN and PRACTICE your ESCAPE!”

  1. Draw a map of all the rooms in your home.
  2. Mark two exits from each room (usually a door and a window). Mark a path from each exit to the outside.
  3. Include the location of all smoke alarms in your home.
  4. Choose an outside meeting place in front of your home where everyone will meet upon exiting.
  5. Add "911" or the local emergency number to your plan.
  6. Plan to call that number from a neighbor's phone or a cell phone once you're outside.
Practice your escape plan TWICE a year!!!
 
 

The National Fire Prevention Association wants you to pay attention to your surroundings, look for available exits, and take the smoke alarm seriously if it sounds. This can make the difference between life and death in a fire or emergency.

TEACH CHILDREN ALL EXITS OUT OF THE HOME,

HOW TO RESPOND SHOULD THE SMOKE ALARMS ACTIVATE, AND

CREATE A SAFE FAMILY MEETING PLACE OUTSIDE THE HOUSE.
 

 

 

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

DIAL 911

Dial 9-1-1 for ALL requests for fire department assistance or ambulance

even if you don't think it's a technically an "emergency."

Each and every FIRE and EMS request must be properly documented and dispatched by our 911 operators - who are ALWAYS there to answer your call. The Winchendon Fire Department is a very busy fire department. There will be times when no one can answer the business lines because we are out on calls. Our non-emergency numbers are for regular station business only, not dispatching.

It is the goal of the Winchendon fire department to provide each and every Winchendon resident the quickest and most efficient response possible. Thank you for your cooperation.

*** CodeRED ***
COMMUNITY NOTIFICATION SYSTEM

CodeRED is community notification system Winchendon utilizes for fast distribution of information. Emergencies, weather alerts, and other important town alerts can be sent town-wide to land-line telephones, cell phones, and email addresses.

CodeRED Community Notification System 
Click Here to sign-up.

VACANT & ABANDONED BUILDINGS
The Winchendon Fire Department is looking for help in identifying vacant or abandoned buildings
throughout the Town of Winchendon.

If you know of an abandoned or vacant building in your neighborhood or elsewhere in town, please email the building street address to vacantbuildings@townofwinchendon.com so we can proceed with enforcing the abandoned/vacant building regulation.

Thank you for helping us protect the community.

 

News Headlines
Assistance to Firefighter's Grant from FEMA
Thu. Sep 19th 2019

This just in! Chief Smith received calls today from the offices of both Senator Markey and Senator Warren advising him that the Winchendon Fire Department would be receiving an Assistance to Firefighter's Grant from FEMA in the amount of approximately $59,000 for 20 sets of structural firef...

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