Chief's Message
Arson Awareness Week
Arson Awareness Week is May 6 - 12 and focuses on juvenile fire-setting. There are ways adults can prevent it and responding appropriately when it occurs is critical. Denial is not the answer. There's help available, and parents of youthful fire-setters need to reach out, for the sake of the child, for themselves, and for the community.
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Severe Weather Awareness Week
The week of April 16th - 20th is scheduled to be "Severe Weather Awareness Week" in Minnesota with Thursday the 19th designated as the statewide tornado drill day. On Thursday April 19th (Drill Day), the warning sirens will be sounded two times; once at 1:45pm for businesses, schools and other facilites to run through their severe weather plans and again at 6:55pm for late shifts and families in their homes. We encourage all citizens to take a few moments to think about where they would go in the event of the sirens sounding and think about what supplies they may need to ride out the severe weather.
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Apply For An Open Burn Permit & Find Out Restrictions
All open burns require approval and must be obtained by going to the MN DNR website. Burn permit information, restricted open burn areas and applying for an open burn permit can be accomplished by clicking on the link below and applying directly with the MN DNR.
MN DNR Open Burn Permit Details
CalendarsArson Awareness Week is May 6 - 12 and focuses on juvenile fire-setting. There are ways adults can prevent it and responding appropriately when it occurs is critical. Denial is not the answer. There's help available, and parents of youthful fire-setters need to reach out, for the sake of the child, for themselves, and for the community.
Click here for more information on Arson Awareness Week.
Severe Weather Awareness Week
The week of April 16th - 20th is scheduled to be "Severe Weather Awareness Week" in Minnesota with Thursday the 19th designated as the statewide tornado drill day. On Thursday April 19th (Drill Day), the warning sirens will be sounded two times; once at 1:45pm for businesses, schools and other facilites to run through their severe weather plans and again at 6:55pm for late shifts and families in their homes. We encourage all citizens to take a few moments to think about where they would go in the event of the sirens sounding and think about what supplies they may need to ride out the severe weather.
Click here for more information on Severe Weather Safety.
Apply For An Open Burn Permit & Find Out Restrictions
All open burns require approval and must be obtained by going to the MN DNR website. Burn permit information, restricted open burn areas and applying for an open burn permit can be accomplished by clicking on the link below and applying directly with the MN DNR.
MN DNR Open Burn Permit Details
Please contact the Watertown Fire Department by phone or email if you have any questions concerning open burns on your property.
Recently in the calendars that the department delivered you will see a piece of paper in there that has ticket stubs for our annual beef raffle, if you would like to turn in your tickets stubs now that is perfectly fine. If not it is okay to wait until the month we do the drawing. We are thankful for your participation in the past and we look forward to your continued support in the future. If you need any additional tickets you may contact us at 952-955-1135.
Year in Review
The Watertown Fire Department completed 2011 with 248 calls for service and a total of more than 7,000 hours of combined fire calls, training, meetings and fire prevention. We thank you for all your support over the past year and we look forward to serving you in the future. For a full report of the Watertown Fire Department go under statistics and click on 2011 Annual report.
