Proclamation #2024-012PPROCIANAV0.9v
-Whereas, the City of Clermont is committed to ensuring the safety and security of all
those living in and visiting our city; and
-Whereas, fire is a serious public safety concern both locally and nationally, and homes
are the locations where people are at greatest risk from fire; and
-Whereas, home fires killed more than 2,700 people in the United States in 2022,
according to the NFPA, fire departments in the United States responded to 360,000 home
fires; and
-Whereas, roughly three out of five fire deaths happen in homes with either no smoke
alarms or with no working smoke alarms; and
-Whereas, Clermont residents should install smoke alarms in every sleeping room,
outside each separate sleeping area, and on every level of the home; and
-Whereas, residents who have planned and practiced a home fire escape plan are more
prepared and will therefore be more likely to survive a fire; and
-Whereas, the 2024 Fire Prevention Week"' theme, "Smoke Alarms: Make them work
for you." Serves to remind us of the importance of having working smoke alarms in the
home.
.Now, Therefore, I, Tim Murry, Mayor of the City of Clermont in the State of Florida,
do hereby proclaim the week of October 6-12, Two Thousand and Twenty Four as:
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In -Witness -Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the
City of Clermont to be affixed this 24th Day of September in the year Two Thousand and
Twenty Four.
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ATTEST:
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Tracy Ackroyd Howe, MMC
City Clerk