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PAGE 4 THE QUEENS TIMES THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2025

Fire Prevention Week: Protect Your
Family By Practicing Home Fire

Escape Plan, Testing Smoke Alarms
Home fires claim more lives in responds to each year are home
a typical year than all natural fires. So far this year alone, local
disasters combined Red Cross Disaster Action teams
have responded to more than 800
It’s In Queens! During Fire Prevention Week home fires in New York City, help-
(Oct. 10 to Oct. 16) (October 5-11), the American ing more than 2,200 families and
Red Cross in Greater New York more than 6,300 people.
reminds everyone of the dangers For emergencies like home
Summer’s over, but outside events of home fires, which claim seven fires, our volunteers provide com-
are everywhere in Queens this lives every day in the U.S. To help fort during what can be the worst
week. Play 19th century baseball. protect your household, test your days of people’s lives. Learn how
Check out vintage cars. Watch smoke alarms each month and you can volunteer for our Disaster
birds with experts. Or stay indoors practice your escape plan until Action Team at redcross.org/DAT.
for Korean music, Greek films, everyone can get out in less than • GET HELP: If you need
and a comic cat. Please read on. two minutes. help making your home safer
“Home fires can occur any against home fires, visit www.
• Oct. 10, Country Gongbang, time, any place,” said Doreen SoundTheAlarm.org/GNY for a
8 pm. South Korea’s first blue- Thomann-Howe, Regional CEO free smoke alarm installation.
grass group, and the first Korean for the Red Cross in Greater New • VOLUNTEER: Help make
band to perform at the Grand Ole York. “The sooner an alarm alerts your community prepare for and
Opry, blends K-pop energy with you to a fire, the sooner you can recover from disasters such as
traditional bluegrass for a fresh, get out. This is critical because home fires. No prior experience
bilingual performance. LeFrak fire experts say you may have is needed – training will be pro-
Concert Hall, 153-49 Reeves Ave., less than two minutes to escape a vided. Visit www.redcross.org/
Flushing. burning home before it’s too late.” volunteer for more information
• Oct. 10, Greek Film Expo 2025, Tips for creating your home fire and to submit an application.
Oct. 12. Presented in collaboration escape plan and practicing your • DONATE: Thanks to dona-
with the Hellenic Film Society 2-minute drill: tions, our services are free and
USA, this event screens movies • Everyone in your household available for all those in need.
around NYC, including four in should know two ways to escape Help families prepare for, respond
Queens: Little England, Oct. 10, 8 from each room in your home. to and recover from home fires
pm; Brides, Oct. 11, 6:30 pm; The • Smoke is dangerous. Get low by giving at SoundTheAlarm.org
Engagement of Anna, Oct. 12, 3 and go! or texting the word HOMEFIRE
pm; and The Last Note, Oct. 12, • Decide where to meet once you to 90999 to make a $10 donation.
5:30 pm. Museum of the Moving get outside. Select a meeting spot • HOME FIRE CAMPAIGN
Image, 36-01 35th Ave., Astoria’s KupCountryGongbang at a safe distance away from your SAVE LIVES Since October 2014,
Kaufman Arts District. home, such as a neighbor’s home the Red Cross Home Fire Cam-
• Oct. 11, Fourth Annual Clas- pm. More than 65 local restaurants historian, preservationist and edu- or landmark like a specific tree in paign, working with community
sic Car Show, 11 am. Expect at provide samples at this six-hour cator. Flushing Town Hall, 137-25 your front yard, where everyone partners, has saved at least 2,479
least 150 vintage vehicles along block party on 46th Street between Northern Blvd. knows to meet. lives by educating families about
with food and live music by local Queens Boulevard and Greenpoint • Oct. 12, Legends: A Spoken • Get out and stay out. Never fire safety, helping them create
favorite Spitfire. Shore Boulevard, Avenue. Word Affair, 5 pm. Multi-Gram- go back inside for people, pets escape plans and installing free
Astoria Park. • Oct. 12, The Something Special my nominated poet Queen Sheba or things. smoke alarms in high-risk areas
• Oct. 11, Vintage Baseball, 11 Big Band, 3 pm. Known for its hosts this third annual night with • If a fire starts, you may have across the country. To learn more
am. Bayside Historical Society Basie style, Something Special The Floacist, Kira J, Roya Marsh, less than two minutes to get to about the campaign and how you
welcomes back the New York features five saxophones, four Richelle Gemini, Chev, and John safety. Time your fire drill and can get involved, visit redcross.
Mutuals for a re-creation of base- trombones, four trumpets, and a Burke. DJ vibes, catered cuisine, find out: what’s your escape time? org/homefires.
ball as it was played in the 1860s. full rhythm section. Queensbor- open bar, red carpet interviews, • While practicing your escape About the American Red Cross
The team will wear replicas of ough Performing Arts Center, and secret cyphers await. Jamaica plan, teach children what a smoke in Greater New York:
19th century uniforms and use 222-05 56th Ave., Oakland Gar- Performing Arts Center, 153-10 alarm sounds like. Talk about The American Red Cross in
period-appropriate balls and bats dens. Jamaica Ave. fire safety and what to do in an Greater New York serves more
(no gloves, as they hadn’t been • Oct. 12, Harvest Festival, noon. • Oct. 12, Cat Kid Comic Club: emergency. than 12 million people in New
invented yet). They’ll face off Celebrate autumn outdoors with The Musical, 1 pm + 4 pm. Cat Kid Smoke alarm safety: York City, on Long Island, in
against the Bayside Little League arts, crafts, games, and compli- and Molly Pollywog start a club to • Place smoke alarms on each Rockland and Westchester coun-
coaches and parents. Fort Totten mentary pumpkins for kids (with teach 21 rambunctious baby frogs level of your home, including ties, at the U.S. Military Academy
Soccer Fields, Totten Avenue and advanced reservation of free chil- how to make their own comics in inside and outside bedrooms and at West Point and in Greenwich,
15th Road. dren’s ticket). Onderdonk House, this TheaterWorksUSA produc- sleeping areas. Conn. We respond to an average of
• Oct. 11, World Squash Day, 11 1820 Flushing Ave., Ridgewood. tion. Will the club survive? Will • In addition to testing your seven emergencies and disasters
am. Open play and free exhibi- • Oct. 12, Urban Birding with the frogs get along? Will creativity alarms once a month, change the a day across the region — home
tion matches. At 3 pm, the No. 1 Haley Scott, 9 am. A walk through save the day? Queens Theatre, 14 batteries at least once a year, if fires, floods, building collapses
Ukrainian woman (Alina Bushma) Flushing Meadows Corona Park United Nations Ave. S., Flushing your model requires it. and more — providing shelter,
plays the No. 1 from Barbados in conjunction with the museum’s Meadows Corona Park. • Also check the manufacturer’s food, clothing and emotional sup-
(Margot Prow). Maspeth Squash, ongoing effort to retrofit a facade • Oct. 12, The Little Library in date of your smoke alarms. If port at no cost to those in need. We
59-30 54th St., Flushing. with decals to make glass visible the Woods, 4 pm. PinProductions they’re 10 years or older, they also collect lifesaving blood; teach
• Oct. 11, Astoria’s Haunt- to birds and prevent collisions. screens a short version of this need to be replaced because the important skills that save lives;
ing Histories + Legends, 8 pm. Learn about the impact of urban award-winning fairy tale series. sensor becomes less sensitive over and support veterans, military
Ghost expert Marie Carter leads infrastructure on bird populations Live actors mix with animation. time. Follow the manufacturer’s members and their families. All of
a two-hour stroll past sunken and solutions to mitigate them, Culture Lab LIC, 5-25 46th Ave. instructions. this work is made possible thanks
ships, secret cemeteries, tomb- while observing local and migra- • Oct. 13, Celebration of the Local Red Cross Disaster to our dedicated volunteers and
stones, grisly murders, sinister tory species. Queens Museum, Three Sisters, 11 am. Meet the Action Team volunteers provide the generosity of the American
legends, and deadly waters. Meet NYC Building, Flushing Mead- Three Sisters: corn, beans, and emotional support, financial as- public. For more information,
at Socrates Sculpture Park, 32-01 ows Corona Park. squash—a legendary trio that’s sistance, and information to help visit www.redcross.org/gny or
Vernon Blvd. • Oct. 12, Live Italian Favorites, grown together in eastern North families begin the process of follow us (@redcrossny) on Face-
• Oct. 11, Honey Bottling Work- 1:30 pm. First, Nicolas King sings America for generations. They recovery. Most of the 65,000 book, Instagram, X, LinkedIn, or
shop, 1:30 pm. QBG Beekeeper Italian songs. Then Steven Maglio, don’t just share space; they help emergencies that the Red Cross Bluesky.
Helen Colhoun teaches about bees a Frank Sinatra tribute artist, and each other grow. Queens County
and how she harvests and bottles a six-piece band take the stage. Farm Museum, 73-50 Little Neck
honey. Queens Botanical Garden, St. Helen’s Academy, 83-09 157th Pkwy., Floral Park.
43-50 Main St., Flushing. Ave., Howard Beach. • Oct. 16, Uptown!, 7:30 pm.
• Oct. 11, Behind the Joy, 1:30 • Oct. 12, Rural County, Urban The high-energy Motown revival
pm + 3:30 pm. Northwell Health Borough, 1 pm. Bowne House group Uptown! impresses with
screens an award-winning film Historical Society launches a book vocals and wall-to-wall choreog-
about a young couple navigating on Queens history by Jeffrey A. raphy. Bayside High School, 32-24
life after bringing home their first Kroessler, who died before it was Corporal Kennedy St.
child. It opens an honest conversa- published. His widow, architect • Oct. 16, A (Very) Nervous
tion about postpartum depression and preservationist Laura Heim, System, 7:30 pm. Mindy Raf’s
and maternal mental health. York and Queens Historical Society new stand-up show looks at poly-
College, 94-20 Guy R. Brewer Board President Rob MacKay amory, escape rooms, nice dads,
Blvd., Jamaica. will speak about the book and and dominating the enemy. QED
• Oct. 12, Taste of Sunnyside, 1 Kroessler’s work as an urban Astoria, 27-16 23rd Ave.