Youngsters learn fire safety
BackFire alarms beeped and children dropped to the ground, rolled across the floor and shouted "Call 911!" But there was no emergency Thursday as approximately 150 preschool and kindergarten students from Quincy and Braintree attended an open house hosted by the National Fire Protection Association in Quincy. The kids youngsters followed Sparky the fire dog's paw-prints through a series of interactive stations where they practiced dialing 911, crawled under smoke, met a firefighter and got to take a photograph their picture taken with Sparky. The This National Fire Prevention Week event focused on this year's theme, "Practice your escape plan." National Fire Prevention Week, which ends Saturday, todaySat -- commemorates the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and serves as an opportunity to reinforce hone fire safety skills. "It's the time of year where we try to reinforce the fire safety message," Plymouth Fire Department Battalion Chief Michael Young said. In the case of a fire, once people exit a house, it is crucial that they never go back inside, Young said. Most fatal fires occur in one- family houses, single-family homes, he said. Too often, people think a fire w ill not couldn't happen to them, and they people underestimate how quickly a fire moves, can move, Young said. People generally have about one minute after the smoke alarm goes off to get out of the house, he said. Plymouth firefighters Members of the Plymouth Fire Department visit classrooms to teach about fire prevention methods. "We try to teach life safety," Young said. "Possessions are replaceable, but lives are not." Young said families should have and practice an emergency escape plan. Practice can help them all family members know how to react if there would be an emergency. if an emergency occurs. Scituate Fire Capt. Captain Al Elliott has been visiting Scituate elementary schools for two weeks, talking to kids children about escape plans. Kids They are taught to practice crawling to avoid smoke and to practice reporting an emergency. Since 1995, when the Student Awareness of Fire Education Program started giving grants in Massachusetts, statewide, the number of children killed in fires has dropped 61 percent, Elliott said. He Elliott said it is gratifying to see the kids learning the safety skills. "We educate the community by educating children," he said. At the NFPA National Fire Protection Association headquarters in Quincy's Batterymarch Office Park Thursday, kids children used a dollhouse to identify exits and find the best way to leave a house. They , and crawled under a silver sheet to practice how they would stay low to avoid smoke. Jake McDonald, 5, from the Goddard School in Braintree, and Maggie Baker, 5, of West Newton, both said crawling was their favorite activity. Maggie said it was something she had never practiced before. She also got a chance to dial 911 on a toy phone. "If someone was in the fire, I know how to dial it (911) by myself," she said. Julie Baker, Maggie's mother, mom, Julie Baker said she was impressed by the event. "They didn't rush through it," she said. "They made sure each child answered questions." By the time Maggie reached the end of the activities and took had her picture taken with Sparky, she could say what steps to follow after hearing a smoke alarm: get out, stay low to avoid smoke, go to your meeting place and call 911. Fran Gilbride, who chaperoned a group of kids children from Step Ahead Kindergarten in Braintree, said that the kids youngsters learn from the experience. They reinforce what they learn after they return to their classrooms. She said she sees it as an opportunity to make sure kids they know the basics. "I think that sometimes in our busy schedule, we, as parents, forget to talk about important things like fire safety," Gilbride said. Lorraine Carli, a spokesperson spokeswoman for the NFPA, National Fire Protection Association, said kids children can help spread the message about fire- safety measures to the community. "Kids are great receivers and tend to be the best deliverers of our message," she said.
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