This year's theme is about charging lithium-ion batteries safely. NFPA gives six short tips and a free digital toolkit. Post one tip a day from Sunday to Saturday, put all six on one page of your own website, and link every post back to that page. Type the words out every time. Do not post only the graphic.
The dates and the theme
According to NFPA's Fire Prevention Week page, the week runs October 4 to 10, 2026. The theme is "Charge Into Fire Safety: Safe Charging Is a Superpower", and it focuses on the everyday charging habits that reduce the risk of lithium-ion battery fires.
If that sounds familiar, it should. NFPA ran a lithium-ion theme under the same name in 2025. That is useful to you. Whatever your department did last October is a starting point, not a thing to throw away.
What NFPA already made for you
The same NFPA page offers two free toolkits as downloads. The printable one has the theme art, handouts, flyers and tip sheets for events in person. The digital and social media one has templates, graphics and sample messaging for posting online. Both include some material in Spanish. There is also a one page safety tip sheet and a free on-demand webinar about the campaign.
You do not need to write anything clever. You need to pick the pieces and schedule them.
One tip a day, Sunday to Saturday
NFPA lists six charging tips. That is one for each day after the kickoff, which makes the week easy to hand to somebody.
| Day | What to post (quote marks are NFPA's exact words) |
|---|---|
| Sunday, October 4 | Kickoff. Name the week, the theme, and the page on your site where all six tips live. |
| Monday, October 5 | "Use the cord and charger that came with your device or one approved by the manufacturer." |
| Tuesday, October 6 | "Charge on a hard, flat surface like a table, desk, or bare floor." |
| Wednesday, October 7 | "Unplug your device when it is fully charged." |
| Thursday, October 8 | "Charge large items like e-bikes, scooters, and power tools outside when possible. Do not block exits when charging." |
| Friday, October 9 | Stop using a device that is very hot, swelling, smells strange, leaks, smokes, or pops or hisses. |
| Saturday, October 10 | On a plane, keep charging devices where you can see them, and do not charge e-cigarettes or vapes on board. |
Thursday is the one worth a photo of your own. If your area has had an e-bike or scooter fire, you know what it looked like. A picture from your own district of where people charge things, taken at a station open house, lands harder than any stock graphic.
Put the six tips on a page you control
A social post sinks down the feed and is hard to find again. A page on your own site is still there in November, when a parent remembers the post and goes looking for it. So make one page with all six tips, the dates of any event you are holding, and a phone number, and link each post back to it.
That page also gives the local paper, the school and the library something to link to. They cannot link to a post in your feed nearly as easily.
Type the words out, every time
The toolkit graphics are pictures of text. A person who uses a screen reader hears nothing useful from a picture unless you describe it, and a person who needs bigger text cannot enlarge the words inside an image. The web accessibility guidance says it plainly: "People cannot alter how text looks in images."
The fix costs you ten seconds a post. Put the tip in the caption as typed words, and on the website page, write the tips as text and use the graphic as decoration. Most platforms also have a box for alt text, which is a short description of the image. Use it.
Do this before Friday
- Download the digital and social media toolkit from NFPA's page.
- Pick one person to post, and give them the table above.
- Make the page with all six tips, typed out, on your own site.
- Schedule the seven posts, each with the tip typed in the caption and a link to that page.
- If you are holding an open house, put the date and time on that page too.
Why I am writing this
I build websites for fire departments, so the part about putting the tips on your own site is the part where I have an interest. It is still true without me. Any page you can edit will do.
If the page is the problem because your site is hard to edit or nobody has the login, that is the gap I fill. Before that, it is worth reading whether the ADA website deadline applies to your department, because text inside graphics is one of the things the standard behind that rule checks.