Burn Awareness Week is a coast-to-coast campaign in Canada and the USA dedicated to inform the general public of the seriousness of the burn problem. It is meant to promote the publics awareness to the availability of local Burn Care Facilities in your community, provide information and materials on a variety of subjects relating to burn awareness, as well as raising awareness of the burn problem.

Burn Awareness Week is the first full week of February and begins a year-round campaign.

Every year the Firefighters Burn Fund Victoria, BC sponsors a Poster Contest within the school districts of Greater Victoria, grades 4-6.

Our second activity is aimed at the young families with newborns. During the first week of February, "Baby Bags" are given to all those babies within Victoria born during the week.

The bags include:

• Smoke detector
• Carbon monoxide detector
• Oven door lock
• Buddy bathe thermometer
• Two-touch outlet covers
• Electrical cord holder
• Children's burn prevention story "No Dragons for Tea".

Many helpful burn prevention pamphlets are also included in the bag. The bags are distributed with the help of our community Welcome Wagon.

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