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Burn Awareness Week

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State Fire Marshal Stephen D. Coan announced that national Burn Awareness Week is February 1-7, 2016. “While we traditionally associate burns with fires, the leading burn injury in Massachusetts is hot liquid scalds to children under 5,” said State Fire Marshal Coan, “Remember that hot liquids burn like fire.”

To learn more about how to prevent these injuries, please visit the State Fire Marshall's Office HERE:

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