Article Contributed on: 10/16/2006 3:35:16 PM
Evergreen Fire Rescue personnel spent another full week in the community visiting schools and community groups to share tips on fire and injury prevention.
Nearly a century ago, the National Fire Protection Association published the "Syllabus for Public Instruction in Fire Prevention," a collection of fire safety topics for teachers to use in the classroom. Nine years later, President
Woodrow Wilson created Fire Prevention day and, in 1922, President Warren Harding established a nationwide Fire Prevention Week.
We at Evergreen Fire Rescue do our part too, but we have so many students and community groups who want us to visit them, we extend Fire Prevention Week through the month of October and invariably into a few days of November.
In honor of the official Fire Prevention Week (October 9-13), our personnel visited Evergreen Country Day School, Rocky Mountain Academy and King-Murphy Elementary School and taught students how to prevent fires, how to react to their smoke detectors activating, why firefighters wear such special clothing to enter fires, what to expect in an ambulance and, best of all, how to spray water from a fire hose!
Einar Jensen, EFR's community educator, also spoke at a meeting of the Women of Evergreen Businesses to garner support for the Community Wildfire Protection Plan and conducted a tour of Station 8 in Brook Forest for a Group of Tiger Scouts working for a merit badge. he also attended the school safety forum hosted by Clear Creek school District and the Clear Creek County Commissioners.
Additionally, paramedics
John Lock and
Dave Montesi attended the Kiwanis meeting at Hiwan Country Club and shared fire prevention tips that adults should heed, including ways to prevent cooking fires, which is the national Fire Prevention week theme.
The third and fourth weeks of October will have a similar schedule for the EFR personnel, but opportunities to interact with their neighbors and area students are welcomed. For information on scheduling a tour of our facilities, or if you'd like a speaker at your next meeting on any topic related to prevention, wellness, mitigation, response or recovery, contact
Jensen at 303-679-4749 or ejensen@evergreenfirerescue.com.