MI Prevention will provide a data driven Community Risk Reduction (CRR) statewide outreach to identify, prioritize, and address all hazard risks. MI Prevention is meant to inspire and stimulate conversation between a diverse coalition of state partners, and to assist communities towards their own CRR and personal Statewide Collaboration and Engagement Framework (SCEF) with a mutually beneficial goal to create safe, healthy, and resilient communities.
Our mission is to provide sustainable community risk reduction programs to minimize fire deaths, injuries, and property loss within the state of Michigan. We will achieve our goals by fostering collaborative relationships, implementing education programs, establish data and analytics and develop more strategic community outreach. To provide consistent and accurate educational programs for communities, schools, and the fire service to create safe, healthy, and resilient communities.
Our data driven approach will be used to identify population risks and implement SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-based) goals to address the specific challenges that each community faces. Through the data established and documented since 2018 we can see trends that gives us more insight into our fatal fire issues. The #1 cause of fatal fires is smoking, and those most at risk include Michigan citizens over the age of 40. We also know that most fires originated in the living room with the victims being found within inches of the front door and more fires occur within the hours of 6pm and 6am. Through these fire fatalities and with our smoke alarm home installations we are finding that most homes do not have working smoke alarms.
Our trends are validating that we need to improve education on fire behavior, find new and improved ways of educating on the need of escape plans and get more working smoke alarms into homes.
The State Fire Marshal and MI Prevention, thanks all participants in the statewide smoke alarm and CO detector installation program. With the help of organizations and fire departments across the state, we are hopeful that we will achieve our goal to reduce the number of structure fires statewide, and thereby protecting the health and safety of our citizens and firefighters. We look forward to continuing to work with our partners to keep our communities safe.
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