GRFD Pancake Breakfast is Today

The Glen Rock Volunteer Fire Department open house pancake breakfast will be held this Sunday, October 16, from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Harding Plaza fire department headquarters.

Shake hands with the members, enjoy food and refreshments, watch equipment demonstrations and view the 2011 dedication of a time capsule.

For more information call Firefighter Perry DeGregorio at 201-759-9264.

On Oct. 9, 1911, FMANA sponsored the first National Prevention Day. In 1920, President Woodrow Wilson issued the first national Fire Prevention Day proclamation. By 1925, President Calvin Coolidge proclaimed the first National Fire Prevention Week, which was Oct. 4-10, 1925. He noted that in the previous year approximately 15,000 lives had been lost to fire in the United States. President Coolidge's proclamation stated, "This waste results from conditions that justify a sense of shame and horror; for the greater part of it could and ought to be prevented.... It is highly desirable that every effort be made to reform the conditions that have made possible so vast a destruction of the national wealth."

National Fire Prevention Week is always the week in which Oct. 9 falls. Each year, a specific theme is chosen and is commemorated throughout the United States.

The Glen Rock Fire Department is an all volunteer organization located in Northern Bergen County, New Jersey. Membership to the department is open to all who reside within a two mile radius outside of the town. The Glen Rock Fire Department is located at One Harding Plaza, Glen Rock, NJ.

The preceding information is from a press release from the Glen Rock Volunteer Fire Department.