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.
