Fire Prevention Activities Focus on Educating the Children

One by one the eager and excited elementary school students marched into the Eagle Pass Fire Department Station yesterday morning. The children were invited as part of National Fire Prevention Month to tour the facilities, ask questions and learn a thing or two about fire prevention. The program has been ongoing for several years now and is regarded as one of the most dramatic lessons in the students academic career. Each year, the campaign focuses on a different aspect of safety, from preventing forest fires to planning an escape route during a blaze. While the campaign lasts the entire month, most police and fire departments designate the second week of October as Fire Prevention Week, during which demonstrations and expos are held in different U.S. cities.The goal of Fire Prevention Week, and its corresponding month, is to make the public more aware of how fires start, how to prevent them and how to be protected during blazes. However, fire prevention has gone beyond not playing with matches. Today, children and adults can educate themselves about the dangers associated not only with fires, but with natural disasters and household hazards as well. The kids that visited yesterday morning not only received valuable life saving information but the lasting memory of climbing on the Big Red Fire Truck and having their pictures taken with the firehouse mascot, “ Sparky.”