HFSC Will Award $750 Stipends to 40 U.S. Fire Departments for Home Fire Sprinkler Outreach
February 3, 2025, FRANKFORT, IL ― The Home Fire Sprinkler Coalition (HFSC) will select 40 fire departments to each receive a $750 stipend to conduct a Home Fire Sprinkler Week outreach program during the week of May 11-17, 2025. The stipend program is generously funded by a grant from State Farm®. Applicants for the stipend must sign up for the free Built For Life Fire Departments (BFLFD) program and describe their plan to use and evaluate their awards.
Home Fire Sprinkler Week is co-sponsored by HFSC and the NFPA Fire Sprinkler Initiative, the week communicates the dangers of home fires to residents and firefighters and promotes the crucial safety advantages of constructing new homes and retrofitting existing residences with fire sprinklers.
Fire departments of any size or type can use the $750 stipend to:
- Create and print customizable materials from the Home Fire Sprinkler Studio
- Build a Home Fire Sprinkler NFPA 13D Display following the HFSC guide
- Produce an educational banner or canopy tent utilizing HFSC display graphics. Fire department logos may be added.
- Purchase a monitor to play HFSC’s educational videos
- Purchase a virtual reality headset to play HFSC’s VR video
- Post HFSC videos or graphics on their fire department Facebook page and use the stipend to boost the messages
- Build or refurbish a side-by-side demonstration
Participants in Fire Prevention Week can take advantage of the free resources of the HFSC Studio at Home Fire Sprinkler Studio to create a wide range of educational materials for their fire sprinkler community outreach initiatives.
With this easy-to-use online tool, fire departments can design their own flyers, posters, and social media cards; share messages through their social media platforms; and print customized materials to distribute at community events such as home shows and open houses, and during Fire Sprinkler Week and Fire Prevention Week.
Now in its eighth year, Home Fire Sprinkler Week has grown increasingly popular with fire departments in the US and Canada, and HFSC anticipates widespread participation again in 2025. Every day will feature a different theme focusing on key facts about home fire sprinklers and how they protect people living in homes, firefighters and the entire community. This year’s themes will be:
Monday: Fire is Fast, Sprinklers are Faster
Tuesday: The Cost to Communities Without Fire Sprinklers
Wednesday: Fire Sprinklers are Part of a Fire-Safe Community
Thursday: It’s Easy to Live with Home Fire Sprinklers
Friday: Protect What You Value Most
Installed fire sprinklers significantly reduce home fire injuries, deaths and property loss. “That’s why all national building codes require sprinklers in new construction,” said Lorraine Carli, NFPA vice president of outreach and advocacy and president of the HFSC. “Every new home built without fire sprinklers is substandard threatening Community Risk Reduction for decades. Our Home Fire Sprinkler Week resources underscore not just that we can do better; they underscore exactly how to do better.”
Fire Departments can apply here: 2025 HFSC Stipend Program. The deadline to apply for the stipend is March 3, 2025.
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About the Home Fire Sprinkler Coalition (HFSC)
HFSC was formed in 1996 to inform the public about the life-saving value of sprinkler protection in one- and two-family homes. HFSC is a purely educational, nonprofit organization and the leading resource for independent, noncommercial information about home fire sprinklers. For more information about HFSC and home fire sprinklers, visit www.homefiresprinkler.org. For free resources, visit Home Fire Sprinkler Resources.
Learn more about Home Fire Sprinkler Week and follow HFSC activities on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/HFSCorg
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/homefiresprinklercoalition/
On Twitter: https://twitter.com/HFSCorg and in Canada https://twitter.com/HFSCinCanada
About State Farm
For over 100 years, the mission of State Farm has been to help people manage the risks of everyday life, recover from the unexpected and realize their dreams. State Farm and its affiliates are the largest providers of auto and home insurance in the United States. Its more than 19,200 agents and 67,000 employees serve over 91 million policies and accounts – including auto, fire, life, health, commercial policies and financial services accounts. Commercial auto insurance, along with coverage for renters, business owners, boats and motorcycles, is also available. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company is the parent of the State Farm family of companies. State Farm is ranked No. 39 on the 2024 Fortune 500 list of largest companies. For more information, please visit http://www.statefarm.com.
