Fire safety messaging

Firefighters’ role in preventing fire and fire deaths

Most fatal fires in Minnesota happen where people feel safest — in their homes. That's the bad news. The good news is that most fires are preventable if families simply take the time to discuss fire prevention and fire safety.

Fire officials play a critical role in educating people in their communities. We have put together these templates and other information to help you keep your community safe.

You can also use this pocket media guide for talking points and messages on a variety of fire safety topics.

Fact sheets

We created these fact sheets for fire departments to share with their communities and on social media. You can remove our logo and use yours.

Social media posts

Use these social posts on your department channels. You may adjust and edit these posts and add links and photos or graphics as necessary.

News release templates

These news release templates are meant to be customized for your department and distributed to local media outlets when you have an incident in your town.

Fire Risk Analysis Tool

The Minnesota State Fire Marshal (SFM) division's Fire Risk Analysis Tool is available to the fire service statewide to help prevent and reduce the number of fires in communities and ultimately, save lives.

This software platform is unique in mapping which areas of a jurisdiction have the most fires and pinpoints what caused them.

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Fire safety tips for your community

Cooking fire tips Smoking-related fire tips Portable heater tips Smoke and CO alarm tips Fire escape planning tips Fireworks safety tips

Need help with fire safety messaging in your community?

Please email our fire and life safety educators with questions and for more information.

Minnesota Department of Public Safety

For fire departments