By filling out and submitting this form—also available in person at Weed & Duryea and New Canaan Fire Departmentheadquarters—residents can put in for one of four metal ash disposal buckets.

Designed for safe disposal of hot embers and ashes from a fireplace, the buckets are “very important,” according to New Canaan firefighter Jim Pickering.

“We have had, through the years, numerous fires with the misplacing of the fire ashes, either in the garbage, we have had a maid vacuum up ashes and put the vacuum in closet and the vacuum starts a fire,” Pickering told NewCanaanite.com. “And then we had the Stamford fire where the grandparents and kids passed, they say it was started because of fireplace ashes. It is very important. And along with that is having the smoke detectors.”

All items are available at Weed & Duryea on Grove Street, where the Dec. 17 drawing will be held at 10 a.m.