Presidential Proclamations for Fire Prevention Week

The first Fire Prevention Day proclamation was issued by President Woodrow Wilson in 1920 and four more ensued through 1924. Then in 1925, in the first year of his second term, President Calvin Coolidge issued the first Fire Prevention Week proclamation. This page provides access to the texts of these proclamations of the Presidents from 1920 to the present. 

Special thanks to the staffs of the Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt Presidential Libraries, the Library of the Executive Office of the President and the Manuscripts Division of the Library of Congress for their assistance in locating and providing copies of the early Presidential Fire Prevention Week proclamations.

 

 

By the President of the United States of America