National Fire Prevention Week [Video]

NANTICOKE, LUZERNE COUNTY — It’s fire prevention week, where the importance of smoke alarms are being highlighted by firefighters across the nation and locally.

Parked outside the Nanticoke Area Education Complex is a house on wheels, but the interior is all about fire safety.

“We needed to do something to start educating the community on the importance of smoke alarms in the home,” said Chief Mark Boncal, Nanticoke City Fire Department.

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This week marks National Fire Prevention Week. Building an entire program around it since 1986 the Nanticoke City Fire Department has been educating students and the local community through its ‘fire safety house.’

“For every single year, we love to see when the kids come in from daycares and pre-kindergarten all the way up to fifth grade, you can definitely tell that they’re retaining the information,” said Chandler Prymowicz, firefighter, Nanticoke City Fire Department.

Students get to enter the home and run into …