Fire Prevention Week, 2018 — Historical Half-Staff Archive
Historical archive — 2018. This records a past observance and is not a current half-staff notice.
Fire Prevention Week, 2018
President Donald J. Trump issued Proclamation 9800 of October 5, 2018. The Federal Register published this document on 2018-10-11.
Half-staff period and scope
Sunday, October 7, 2018, in honor of the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Service.
Annual observance under Public Law 107–51. The half-staff instruction applies to all Federal office buildings on the named Sunday; it does not make the whole Fire Prevention Week a half-staff period.
Official proclamation
Open or download the official proclamation PDF from GovInfo
Read the Federal Register source
Signature-page preview
Page 2 of the official PDF is reproduced below. It contains a reproduced presidential signature, not an original wet-signed scan. Select the image to open the complete official PDF.
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