Midwest City Fire Department needs your help to win a grant

Liberty Mutual Insurance Company is offering a chance for the Midwest City Fire Department to receive a $10,000 grant.

In order to win, 5,000 people need to take the Fire Smart quiz and select Midwest City as the recipient department for the $10,000. Also, in order for them to receive credit they MUST use the link below listed in Step 1.

The contest is from September 1-October 31. Six $10,000 grants will be awarded to departments that fall into our category of 10,001 to 100,000 residents.

Step 1: Visit www.befiresmart.com/KaleenaSchumacher

Step 2: Click the lower left link Fire Safety Pledge Program and Get Started

Step 3: Click the lower left link again "Get Started Take the Quiz"

Step 4: Select OK for Oklahoma

Step 5: Select Midwest City

Step 6: Take the 10 questions Quiz
(You do not have to get the questions correct, they are to help educate)

Sample Questions:
Question 1: Never leave the dryer on when you leave home.
Question 2: What percentage of home electric fire related deaths are caused by cords and plugs?
Question 3: What is the leading cause of home fires in the winter months?
Question 4: If a fire starts, get out first, then call the fire department.
Question 5: Each year, fire kills more Americans than all natural disasters combined.
Question 6: Keep smoke alarms free of dust,, debris by vacuuming over and around them regularly.
Question 7: Never use a fire extinguisher for a grease fire on the stove.
Question 8: Most home fires start in the.
Question 9: Since the 1990's home fires caused by candles.
Question 10: Cooking fires are the number one cause of home fires.

Step 7: For verification purposes the screen after the quiz will ask for your name, number, and email address. YOU MUST FILL THIS OUT for us to get credit. It is required to make sure we do not get duplicate entries.

Step 8: Your done! Except please get the word out!!!! And get others to vote! We can do this and win!!!

Please consider forwarding this to all your family and friends. You don't have to live in Midwest City or even Oklahoma to give Midwest City credit.

This money will be used to help educate the public through our Fire Prevention Bureau.

Click here for more program details.

Photo Credit: by Thirtyfootscrew on Flickr; Creative Commons License applies.