Fire Safety House Program
Target Audience:
Students in grades K through 4.
Description:
The Fire Safety House is a two-story mobile classroom, child-scaled and designed, to resemble an actual home. It travels to schools and community events and provides children with a hands-on, realistic learning experience. Included in the Fire Safety House design is a living room, kitchen, and control room on the first level, and a bedroom on the second level. Inside the Fire Safety House, the children are taught by trained professionals to recognize fire and burn hazards associated with each room. While in the bedroom, they are taught fire escape skills in a realistic setting using operational smoke detectors, and non-toxic smoke that give the effect of an actual fire.Once outside, a 9-1-1 programmed telephone system provides the children the opportunity to practice calling 9-1-1. The operator in the control room answers the phone in the same manner a dispatcher would in case of an emergency.
Goals / Objectives:
After completing the program, the children are knowledgeable on:
- Escape skills from a smoke filled, two-story house
- How to dial 9-1-1 to report a fire and correctly relay pertinent information
- Recognizing outfitted fire fighters as their friends and not to be afraid of them.
- Recognizing the sound of a smoke detector
- Feeling a closed door for heat before opening it.
- Tips on avoiding cooking fires & scalding tap water burns
- Stove, microwave, fireplace, electrical, and heating safety measures
- How to plan and practice a fire escape route, with their parents, from their homes.
Program Availability:
The Fire Safety House program is currently available in the following counties:
- Berks
- Upper Bucks
- Carbon
- Lackawanna
- Lehigh
- Luzerne
- Monroe
- Northampton
- Schuylkill
- Warren, NJ
For more information, see our brochure.
