Menifee Emergency Preparedness Fair provides life-saving help and advice

Firefighters from Menifee’s Cal Fire Station 76 demonstrate how they use Jaws-of-Life to extricate victims trapped in their vehicles after serious traffic accidents at the Menifee Emergency Preparedness Fair. Valley News/Tony Ault photo
With the major Fairview Fire in nearby Hemet still fresh in their minds, hundreds of Menifee residents took the time to visit the Menifee Emergency Preparedness Fair in Menifee’s Central Park on Saturday, Sept. 17.The residents were invited to visit different booths explaining the ways and means to best prepare for any major emergency and what services are available to them in such cases as fire, earthquake or any other disaster. On hand for demonstrations of those emergency services were members of Cal Fire, the Community Emergency Response Team, American Red Cross, SCE’s emergency vehicle, local hospitals, the City of Menifee, Menifee Police and many others.The theme of the Fair is that eve
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