08/31/2026
▪️With college and university students preparing to return to class we encourage you to take a few minutes to make sure they are living in a fire-safe environment.
👉🏻Educating students on what they can do to stay safe during the school year in their dorms or off-campus housing is very important and often overlooked. Here are some fire safety tips to keep in mind and practice throughout the year:
✅ Look for fully sprinklered housing when choosing a dorm or off-campus housing.
✅ Make sure you can hear the building alarm system when you are in your dorm room.
✅ If you live in a dormitory, make sure your sleeping room has a smoke alarm, or your dormitory suite has a smoke alarm and
carbon monoxide (CO) alarm in each living area as well as the sleeping room.
✅ It you live in an apartment or house, make sure smoke and CO alarms are installed in each sleeping room, outside every sleeping area, and on each level of the apartment unit or house. For the best protection, all smoke alarms in the apartment unit or house should be interconnected so that when one sounds, they all sound.
✅ Test all smoke alarms at least monthly.
✅ Never remove batteries or disable the alarm.
✅ Learn your building’s evacuation plan and practice all drills as if they were the real thing.
✅ If you live off campus, have a fire escape plan with two ways out of every room.
✅ When the smoke, CO, or fire alarm alarm sounds, get out of the building quickly and stay out.
✅ Stay in the kitchen when cooking.
✅ Cook only when you are alert, not sleepy or drowsy from medicine or alcohol.
✅ Use battery-operated flameless candles. They can look, smell, and feel just like real candles
✅ Check your school's rules before using electrical appliances in your room.
Stay Informed, Stay Safe‼️
City of Pembroke Fire Department
Pembroke Professional Fire Fighters Association Local 488
