Posted: 1/29/2011 11:15:15 AM EDT
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Any fellow Firefighters have any good PDFs or similar on Fire Prevention. I'm trying to put something together and I'm trying to figure out how to hit only the key points.
ETA: Well it seems I have al the PDFs I need at my fingertips with a quick google search. My only problem now is going to be narrowing down all the information into key points that can be covered in about 4-5 minutes. Anyone have any advice or pointers? Thanks, ARSC |
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Any fellow Firefighters have any good PDFs or similar on Fire Prevention. I'm trying to put something together and I'm trying to figure out how to hit only the key points. ETA: Well it seems I have al the PDFs I need at my fingertips with a quick google search. My only problem now is going to be narrowing down all the information into key points that can be covered in about 4-5 minutes. Anyone have any advice or pointers? Thanks, ARSC After doing it for a number of years I can say it really depends on your age group. For little kids the old standards: Don't touch/play with matches or lighters. Tell an adult if you find them. Exit drills in the home. Don't touch stoves. If the smoke detector goes off, check you bedroom door. If it's hot, go to the window and call for help. If it's cool, stay low (crawl) and get out. Have your family designate a meeting place, and once you get out stay there - don't go back in. If your clothes catch on fire stop, drop, roll. Older kids you can explain a little more, and include warning about space heaters, cooking and extension cord use, as well as changing your battery when you change your clock (daylight v. standard time*) Adults? More about watching out for kids, properly securing smoking materials, proper use of extension cords and space heaters, not substituting higher amperage fuses, maintaining ways of egress in the home. * this section not applicable in AZ, HI, eastern parts of IN, PR, VI, AS, and GU. 
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Any fellow Firefighters have any good PDFs or similar on Fire Prevention. I'm trying to put something together and I'm trying to figure out how to hit only the key points. ETA: Well it seems I have al the PDFs I need at my fingertips with a quick google search. My only problem now is going to be narrowing down all the information into key points that can be covered in about 4-5 minutes. Anyone have any advice or pointers? Thanks, ARSC After doing it for a number of years I can say it really depends on your age group. For little kids the old standards: Don't touch/play with matches or lighters. Tell an adult if you find them. Exit drills in the home. Don't touch stoves. If the smoke detector goes off, check you bedroom door. If it's hot, go to the window and call for help. If it's cool, stay low (crawl) and get out. Have your family designate a meeting place, and once you get out stay there - don't go back in. If your clothes catch on fire stop, drop, roll. Older kids you can explain a little more, and include warning about space heaters, cooking and extension cord use, as well as changing your battery when you change your clock (daylight v. standard time*) Adults? More about watching out for kids, properly securing smoking materials, proper use of extension cords and space heaters, not substituting higher amperage fuses, maintaining ways of egress in the home. * this section not applicable in AZ, HI, eastern parts of IN, PR, VI, AS, and GU. This one is for adults and that's pretty much how I'm thinking about putting it together. Along with a few tips on actions to take if a fire does occur once they are safely outside their home. Like giving the dispatcher as much information as they can on the size of the fire. Telling us once we arrive about anything they have inside that could do us harm and an important one: close your door when you exit the house. I'm sure I'm not the only who has been called to many fires where the occupant left the door wide open because they thought that would help us go inside faster. Only to let that baby breathe and progress faster. This is my first fire prevention speech so I'm just trying be informative without losing their attention and hit the basics. I'm working on it now and I hope it goes well! |
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an important one: close your door when you exit the house. I'm sure I'm not the only who has been called to many fires where the occupant left the door wide open because they thought that would help us go inside faster. Only to let that baby breathe and progress faster. That's a great point. SInce it's an adult audience, remind them fire doubles every minute - in other words, don't try to fight it with the pot and pan brigade and then call us after your efforts fail. CALL FIRST!!!! 
Remind them too about crawling under smoke. In January my VFD responded to an xmas tree fire where the guy tried to take it outside and had his wife open the big patio door for him to exit... with the expected results when the fresh air hit it. The wife and kid bailed out the door when the tree lit. Between the heat from the fire and the smoke he got lost inside his own living room, and if he hadn't tripped over an ottoman while stumbling around and then seen light from the front door he probably would've been a statistic. This is my first fire prevention speech so I'm just trying be informative without losing their attention and hit the basics. I'm working on it now and I hope it goes well!
You'll do fine. 
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