Fire Wire - Cherokee County Fire and Emergency Services
Fire Wire - Cherokee County Fire and Emergency Services
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The <strong>Fire</strong> <strong>Wire</strong><br />
Page 6<br />
<strong>Fire</strong>fighters Participate in Safety Town<br />
<strong>Cherokee</strong> <strong>County</strong> <strong>Fire</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Emergency</strong> <strong>Services</strong><br />
visited children in June who participated in Safety<br />
Town at Bascomb Elementary School. Safety Town<br />
is a week long experience <strong>and</strong> features a pint-sized<br />
town where comprehensive safety messages are<br />
taught by safety professionals to kindergarten age<br />
children. Each day they learned a different safety<br />
message.<br />
Along with pedestrian <strong>and</strong> traffic safety, the innovative<br />
curriculum included poison prevention, water<br />
safety, playground safety, animal safety, stranger<br />
awareness, bicycle safety, school bus safety, <strong>and</strong><br />
more. Safety Town's goal is to help children recognize<br />
hazardous situations <strong>and</strong> react to them. Children<br />
have "h<strong>and</strong>s-on" learning while riding through<br />
the Safety Town streets along with singing safety<br />
songs, playing safe games, coloring <strong>and</strong> participating<br />
in other activities designed around safety.<br />
A <strong>Cherokee</strong> <strong>County</strong> <strong>Fire</strong> Explorer, dressed in full<br />
turn-out gear, shows the children the importance of<br />
never being afraid of a firefighter.<br />
One the last day of Safety Town, the subject was fire<br />
safety <strong>and</strong> <strong>Cherokee</strong> <strong>County</strong> firefighters were on<br />
h<strong>and</strong> to teach the children some important safety<br />
tips. Children were entertained by Freddie the <strong>Fire</strong><br />
Truck <strong>and</strong> also watched a fireman put on his turnout<br />
gear. They also received a tour of a fire truck <strong>and</strong><br />
learned about fire safety while experiencing the <strong>Fire</strong><br />
Safety House. The <strong>Fire</strong> Safety House is a mockeddown,<br />
split-level version of a private home on a<br />
trailer. Infused with theatrical smoke to simulate reallife<br />
fire conditions, participants practice effective fire<br />
evacuation techniques in a realistic setting.<br />
Debi Radcliff, one of the directors of Safety Town,<br />
said, “This is the ninth year that we have presented<br />
Safety Town to the children of <strong>Cherokee</strong> <strong>County</strong>.<br />
When we first started, we had 42 children who<br />
participated in the program. This year, we did the<br />
program for three weeks <strong>and</strong> had over 210 children<br />
to participate.” Since Safety Town began in 2002,<br />
approximately 1,500 children in <strong>Cherokee</strong> <strong>County</strong><br />
have gone through the week long safety program.<br />
Safety Town was held three times this year during<br />
the month of June. To learn more about Safety<br />
Town, visit their website at<br />
www.cherokeecountysafetytown.org<br />
<strong>Cherokee</strong> <strong>County</strong> firefighter, Paul Faulkner, shows<br />
the kids of Safety Town some of the tools that<br />
firefighters use to fight fire.
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