Fire Safety House

IF THE LIFE OF ONE CHILD CAN BE SAVED,
IT'S WORTH THE ENTIRE PROJECT

Burns Recovered Support Group has purchased two Fire Safety Houses to educate the children and adults in our community on fire safety and prevention.

The Fire Safety House is a mobile classroom used to demonstrate fire prevention and home escape techniques. Included in the house design is a living room, kitchen, bedroom and control room.

Because it looks like a real house, instructors can teach about numerous fire hazards in a familiar setting. This unique mobile classroom will be used at local schools, community functions, and churches and can be requested for special functions. This ongoing educational project will be managed and operated with the assistance of the Fire Departments in our community.

BEDROOM: Participants are trained inside the Fire Safety House in a simulated bedroom. Educators can teach fire escape skills in a realistic setting using electronically operated smoke detectors and a non-toxic smoke system, which give the effect of an actual fire.

When the artificial smoke comes into the bedroom, participants learn the necessary actions they should take if they are involved in a fire situation. The smoke is used strictly for dramatic effect and removed via the ventilation system once the effect has been achieved. This is to keep children from thinking they can safely breathe the smoke in an actual fire. Educators stress the point that the smoke and gases associated with many fires can kill quickly. Children also learn to recognize that fire fighters are their friends and that they should not be afraid of the dark masked figures that may come toward them in a real fire situation.

When the "fire" starts, participants are instructed to drop to their knees and crawl to a safe exit. The bedroom door is warm to the touch, thus teaching the need to crawl to the window. With assistance, the children exit through a window and escape with the use of an emergency escape ladder.

LIVING ROOM: Educators spend quality time with participants in front of the fireplace teaching heating safety measures and other home safety tips. Tips such as combustibles too close to a fireplace or space heater, overloaded electrical outlets and other dangers associated with leaving an open flame unattended are just some of the many hazards that can be depicted in this area.

The living room environment may also be used to discuss other curriculums such as earthquake and disaster preparedness, babysitter programs and first-aid training.

KITCHEN: The use of operational appliances in the kitchen provides an opportunity to point out the hazards common to this room. The layout of this room is also conducive to having Senior Citizens tour the kitchen. Children and the elderly have to be made aware of burn and fire dangers such as pot handles sticking out, combustible materials near the stove, the use of electrical appliances near a water source, how to avoid cooking fires, microwave and stove safety plus other general tips.

A "911" Phone System gives children and adults the opportunity to practice calling "911" or any local emergency number. The operator of the Control Room will answer the call in the same manner an emergency dispatcher would in case of an actual emergency. This allows parents and educators to see if the child is able to calmly and correctly relay his or her address and other pertinent information.

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