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Fire Safety 2012 | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | A Newspaper in Education Section | www.milwaukeemarketplace.com/specialsections 4 Word Search Can you find the words in the puzzle? Escape Plan Extinguisher Fire Drill Firefighter Find these 10 words that are fire’s foes: Fire Sprinklers Ladder Prevention Safety Checks N S I P L W U S O F S V F N O N B A B Y H D F P M L S I S R B O U F U I L O O X T C R G Z G R I N E K S K J I L E E I L O Y S T X T E N E D L T F A X F X Q Y N A Y Q B K Z S I K G N Z W W L E O C N I S B G J L G J B A P Y V I H R J D H E L C Q R M A D R E E E Y N T K I P M U L K P S D R P C Y E L R H X F M S Y D Y H P A K R L D N M P E N A L P E P A C S E E H E R E L W A T E R R R I X R I I E X T I N G U I S H E R I F R Y M N M K Q T F O S L Q F ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Meets the New wiscoNsiN staNdards for health educatioN: 1:2:a1, 1:3:a1 In the blackness, you collide with your spouse. One of you goes to your son’s room, the other to your daughter’s. Your son’s room is filled with smoke. He’s still asleep. Wrapping your son in a blanket, you carry him from the room. Smoke Alarm Water Word search solution is on the back cover. Downstairs, the fire spreads through the living room. The temperature at the living room ceiling approaches 1,400 degrees Fahrenheit. Carrying your son, you reach the top of the stairs. Gasping for breath in the thick, smoky air, you start down. Class Activities Teachers, check out these ideas that tie into Fire Prevention Week. Also, try to incorporate safety and fire prevention themes in different subject areas, such as math story problems, reading materials for language arts, and lesson plans for social studies and history. Cut it out Ask students to search copies of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for pictures of products that can cause injury if used improperly. Discuss how to use each item safely. Clever comics Make abook about safety for the younger students in your school. Have your class members depict safety messages in acomic-strip style, then assemble the pages into booklets. Students can refer to the comics section in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for writing and drawing ideas. Write it right Have students read examples of letters to the editor in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and then have them write letters expressing their views about laws requiring smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors in homes, or other topics related to fire safety. Go graphers Ask students to count the number of smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors in their homes and list where they are located. Compile the results and have the students make different types of graphs showing the data. 2 min. 25 sec. 3 min. 29 sec. 3 min. 54 sec. Fighting the heat and smoke, you reach the bottom of the stairs and escape. Minutes later, the living room is enveloped in flames as the air in the room catches fire and flashover occurs.
You need two ways out! Hi kids! It’s me, Sparky the Fire Dog. It’s Fire Prevention Week and my friends at the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) want your family to know what to do if there is a fire. In a fire, it may be hard to get outside if you don’t have two ways out. One way out could be blocked by fire or smoke. You always need a second way out — no matter where you are — home, school, store and even a restaurant. It’s a good idea to always think about how you would get out of any building in an emergency. Let’s start at home Every room should have two ways out. Walk around your home and find two ways out of every room. One way out would be a door and the second way out may be another door or a window. For fun, use a sticky pad and mark the ways out with a ONE and a TWO. Have a grown-up help you check to be sure all windows and doors can open easily. Make sure they are not blocked by furniture, security bars or painted or nailed shut. It also is important to have a home fire escape plan that has two ways out 3 min. 57 sec. 4 min. 16 sec. 6 min. 12 sec. A wall of searing heat races up the stairs. Had you been in the living room at flashover, you would not have survived. Nothing, and no one, survives flashover. Fire is amazingly fast. In less than five minutes, the fire is out of control. of every room and an outside meeting place. A good outside meeting place would be a neighbor’s porch, streetlight or a special tree in front of and well away from your home. Don’t forget the most important part of your plan — working smoke alarms. Make sure your home has a smoke alarm on every level (including the basement), outside each sleeping area and inside each bedroom. Ask a grownup to test all the smoke alarms in your home to be sure they are working. It’s best to have all the smoke alarms connected so when one sounds, they all sound. Make sure everyone in your home knows the sound of the smoke alarms and can hear the alarms. Once you have all three parts of your home fire escape plan: working smoke alarms, two ways out of every room and an outside meeting place; it’s time to do the drill — that’s your home fire escape drill. Everyone in your family should join in. 1. Everyone should go his or her bedroom. 2. A grown-up should push the test button on the smoke alarm — sounding the alarm for the drill. 3. Everyone act quickly and get outside. 4. Go to your outside meeting place where everyone in your family will meet. If it were a real emergency, someone would call the fire department from outside using acell or neighbor’s phone. 5. Finally, your home fire escape drill is a success once everyone is outside and stays outside. Now it is time to celebrate a fire-safety job well done. You could sing a little song I made up. “There once was a dog named Sparky. He was really into fire safety and that is no malarkey. He spent day and night giving a shout telling everyone he met to have two ways out.” If singing isn’t your thing, sit back and celebrate with your favorite snack. Mine is cheese pizza…yum! Happy Fire Prevention Week! Check out the fun family activities at fireprevention.org or visit Sparky the fire Dog at sparky. org for lots of fun things to do. Meets the New wiscoNsiN staNdards for health educatioN: 7:2:a1, 7:2:B2, 7:3:a1, 7:3:B2 Article submitted by National Fire Protection Association two waYs out! You run across the yard and find your family waiting for you. You all head to aneighbor’s house. By the time they answer the door and call 911, seven minutes have passed since the fire started. In most communities, afour-minute response time is considered excellent. If you have fire sprinklers, you may spend the time describing the fire and how it was controlled. If not, you’ll watch your house burn as you wait. www.milwaukeemarketplace.com/specialsections | A Newspaper in Education Section | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Fire Safety 2012 5
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