Prevention & Public Education

One such tool has been the Glenn County fire safety house. The safety house has helped the program by allowing kids to get a realistic learning experience; by having a setting much like one at their own homes. It allows us to talk with the kids about fire safety in different areas of a home and allows the added feature of “fake” smoke; allowing us to show them how it may be with smoke in a room, and what to do in a real situation.

Prevention

The fire prevention division continues its efforts to keep our community a safe place in which to live, work and play.

The fire prevention division has responsibility for fire code enforcement, public safety education, and fire investigation. The fire prevention division also manages the weed abatement program, and reviews, approves and inspects special events, carnivals, fairs and fireworks displays.

Business inspections are divided between A Shift, B Shift and C Shift. The primary focus of these inspections is "compliance through education". This commitment to proactive fire prevention activities continues to result in reducing or eliminating fire losses.

Public Education

In 2018, the WFD expanded the public education effort to include “Stop the Bleed” Training. “Stop the Bleed” is a national awareness campaign and call-to-action. Stop the Bleed is intended to cultivate grassroots efforts that encourage bystanders to become trained, equipped, and empowered to help in a bleeding emergency before professional help arrives, ultimately saving lives. The WFD conducts these trainings yearly for all school staff in the Willows school system, and for several ROP classes in cooperation with the Willows High School.

Public education is funded 100% by community donations. WFD holds an annual pancake breakfast the Saturday following National Fire Prevention week and all proceeds fund the fire prevention program.

If you would like to schedule an event, contact Engineer Enos via email at: kenos@cityofwillows.org