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False Fire Alarm Media Effort Gains Support
Monday, November 15th, 2010

False Fire Alarm Media Effort Gains Support and 647 Fire Depts Have Emailed PSA to TV Stations

There are more than six thousand false fire alarms in the United States every day, according to the National Fire Protection Association. An “emailable” public service announcment drawing attention to the issue has gained widespread support from the fire service. Since the 60-second PSA was created, 647 fire departments across the country have emailed it to local TV stations in an effort to alert the public about the growing problem of false fire alarms.

Go Here to watch the emailable PSA.

Please reach out to your community this holiday with a message of fire safety.

For more information, please contact:

THE IDEA BANK TRAINING RESOURCES
1139 Alameda Padre Serra   Santa Barbara, CA 93103
(800) 621-1136 FAX (805) 965-2275
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Live Safe Foundation is an Ohio based non-profit organization (501c3), and leading grassroots movement, devoted to making and fire and life safety education, awareness initiatives and life saving tools available on a broad basis to communities, campuses, and institutions in an effort to reduce national fire fatalities and fire losses. Live Safe aims to help finance fire safety education where means are otherwise unavailable. Live Safe is developing and sponsoring programs to help groups find the resources needed to advance individual and community fire safety.




2010 Can-Am Police-Fire Games Opening Ceremony
Monday, August 9th, 2010

2010 Can-Am Police-Fire Games

Opening Ceremony Sunday, August 15 at Coffman Park

Can-Am Police-Fire GamesCome honor our police & firefighters! Don’t miss the FREE family friendly Opening Ceremonies for the 2010 Can-Am Police-Fire Games-held from 4:30 – 9 p.m. Sunday, August 15 at Coffman Park.

Activities will include a concert by Phil Dirt and the Dozers, Touch-a-truck, Inflatables, Police K-9 Demo and much more!

Can-Am Police Fire Games

http://dublin.oh.us/canam

Live Safe Foundation is an Ohio based non-profit organization (501c3), and leading grassroots movement, devoted to making and fire and life safety education, awareness initiatives and life saving tools available on a broad basis to communities, campuses, and institutions in an effort to reduce national fire fatalities and fire losses. Live Safe aims to help finance fire safety education where means are otherwise unavailable. Live Safe is developing and sponsoring programs to help groups find the resources needed to advance individual and community fire safety.


Side-by-Side Fires to be Set by the Columbus Division of Fire To Help Columbus area Residents Understand Risks and Home Safety Technology
Thursday, July 29th, 2010

The Columbus Fire Division will be performing a live, side-by-side fire and sprinkler burn demonstration that vividly shows the tremendous speed of a typical home fire and its potential for deadly destruction. Also illustrated is the vital importance of home fire safety technology that can save lives and reduce property damage (smoke alarms and home fire sprinkler systems). The demonstration is open to the public.

WHEN: Wednesday, August 4, 2010 at 12 noon.

WHERE: The rear of the Division of Fire Training complex, located at the rear of 3675 Parsons Avenue.

WHY: More than 80 percent of all fire deaths occur in the home. The Columbus Division of Fire is using this important event to help people of every age understand how dangerous a home fire is, and how important prevention, detection, suppression and escape are.

This demonstration is part of the Fire Team USA workshop, which is being held at the Columbus Fire Training Center on Wednesday, August 4, 2010 and Thursday, August 5, 2010. Fire Team USA is a federally funded Fire Prevention grant administered by the Department of Homeland Security, Assistance to Firefighters grant program.  For more information about Fire Team USA, visit www.fireteamusa.com or the event, please contact David Sawyer, Lieutenant, Fire Prevention Bureau, 645-5668.

Live Safe Foundation is an Ohio based non-profit organization (501c3), and leading grassroots movement, devoted to making and fire and life safety education, awareness initiatives and life saving tools available on a broad basis to communities, campuses, and institutions in an effort to reduce national fire fatalities and fire losses. Live Safe aims to help finance fire safety education where means are otherwise unavailable. Live Safe is developing and sponsoring programs to help groups find the resources needed to advance individual and community fire safety.



Travel Treasures: Where There’s Smoke…
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

As the spring and summer travel season begins to kick off, please consider this travel treasure in your plans.

At some point in many people’s lives they were children who wanted to be firefighters. That’s probably because firefighters seemed like the closest reality could come to providing superhereos. After all, it takes a special breed to “run in when everyone else is running out,” as the saying goes.

That special breed is honored in Phoenix at the Hall of Flame Museum of Firefighting. The roots of the hall are in founder George F. Getz Jr.’s hobby of collecting firefighting equipment, but its current status is that of a monument to a heroic profession.

The Hall of Flame contains six exhibit galleries covering 35,000 square feet. The galleries are full of tools, machinery, vehicles and other items from all over the world. In addition to tracking the history of firefighting through the advancement in equipment, the hall also delves into the human aspect of firefighting in one gallary.

Called the National Firefighting Hall of Hereos, the gallery honors firefighters who have received citations, as well as those who have died in the line of duty. (More than 2, 000 firefighters have died since national records started being kept in 1981.)

Call (602)275-3473 or go online at www.hallofflame.org for more information.

Information courtesy of Home & Away Magazine. For more information about Home & Away, call (800) 282-7800. Or visit online at www.homeandawaymagazine.com.

Live Safe Foundation is an Ohio based non-profit organization (501c3), and leading grassroots movement, devoted to making fire safety education, awareness initiatives and life saving tools available on a broad basis to communities, campuses, and institutions in an effort to reduce national fire fatalities and fire losses. Live Safe aims to help finance fire safety education where means are otherwise unavailable. Live Safe is developing and sponsoring programs to help groups find the resources needed to advance individual and community fire safety.


Firefighters – Traditional, Adventurous, Inspired
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

Firefighters – Traditional, Adventurous, Inspired

No matter what city, town, or village you live in, you are protected by a firefighter. Firefighters have been around in the United States since the 1700’s. Over the years, firefighting has changed techniques and technology to what is has evolved into today. No matter where you go, there are firefighters on the ready – prepared to respond and help a nameless person out of a small personal crisis or by working on chaotic disasters that helps out many. Regardless of the emergency, firefighters have taken the oath to help people.

Men and women who become firefighters become one for one of many reasons. Family tradition is alive and well in many departments throughout this country. You will walk into any firehouse and find that somewhere in the department there are fathers, son, mothers, brothers, and sisters working at the same department or another one down the street. Similar to farming, this career usually stays within family blood lines.

Adrenaline seekers are another common group of firefighters. These firefighters are the ones that enjoy learning rescue techniques; hanging from a rope, in a fast moving river, in a collapsed building, and in a pond full of ice. Each type of rescue has its own set of threats that creates dangerous situations that these types of firefighters live for.

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Another group is the inspired. This group has been in a precarious situation where firefighters responded and save their day. They witnessed firsthand how firefighters work together to get a job done. In doing so, they realized that they enjoyed that type of work and have been inspired to pay that forward to the next person needing firefighter’s assistance.

Through it all, these men and women come together with a vast array of reasons but the common denominator for becoming a firefighter is knowing that at any moment a citizen of their community will need their help and helping people is the bottom line to what firefighters do.

Guest Author: Captain Bill Piwtorak; Liberty Township Fire Department










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