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The North Charleston and American LaFrance Fire Museum and Educational Center houses the largest collection of professionally restored American LaFrance fire apparatus in the country. The museum opened to the public in 2007 and currently houses 18 fire trucks and priceless, one of a kind firefighting artifacts. Complete with interactive exhibits featuring real smoke, hands on displays, a 40 person theater, children’s play area and fire truck simulator the North Charleston and American LaFrance Fire Museum proves to be a remarkable experience and an unforgettable destination for everyone.
Photo by Ryan Johnson
Sparky the fire dog plays with children during a fire prevention awareness event at the child development center (CDC) at Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas, Oct. 11, 2011. Members from Goodfellow’s fire department visited the CDC as part of 89th National Fire Prevention Week. The children got to play with Sparky, explore a fire truck and become familiar with firefighters during the visit. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Heather L. Rodgers)
Teams form the State Fire Marshal’s Office, the American Red Cross of Tennessee River, and Clarksville Fire Rescue installed free smoke alarms in homes throughout the north Clarksville area on Saturday, February 17, 2018.
Learn more about wildfire prevention, prohibitions, and wildfires or note by visiting: bcwildfire.ca/index.htm
More than 30 children and their parents came to the library to see Firefirghter Cody and other firefighters from Liberal's Fire Department read a story about fire safety, answer questions about fires and the fire department, practice stop, drop and rolling and learn important fire safety tips. At the end, children visited with the fire department's mascot, Sparky and got fire fighter hats and coloring books.
London Fire Brigade (LFB) Eat My GOAL! ad in English used in print media and pub toilets. See bit.ly/Mzwgmu for more the blog post
The B.C. government, Food Banks BC and Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (AANDC) are supporting a provincial campaign to help ensure B.C.'s most vulnerable families have working smoke alarms in their homes.
Learn more: www.newsroom.gov.bc.ca/2012/10/food-banks-serve-up-safety...
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- The fire that once blazed more than 15 feet high into the night has been reduced to smoldering wet wood as the Insipient Fire Brigade at Camp Nathan Smith begins the clean up phase. The fire was part of a drill to test the skills of the Fire Brigade with 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division who had recently completed a five day fire safety course. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. April York, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, PAO)
Fire Kills campaign. When you change your clock test your smoke alarm.
For more information, visit: www.facebook.com/firekills
The B.C. government, Food Banks BC and Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (AANDC) are supporting a provincial campaign to help ensure B.C.'s most vulnerable families have working smoke alarms in their homes.
Learn more: www.newsroom.gov.bc.ca/2012/10/food-banks-serve-up-safety...
Fire Kills campaign. When you change your clock test your smoke alarm.
For more information, visit: www.facebook.com/firekills
As part of the American Red Cross Home Fire Preparedness Campaign, on Saturday, April 18 volunteers with the American Red Cross, the Linden Fire Department and the Linden High School Navy Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) go door-to-door in neighborhoods in Linden’s 5th and 8th Wards offering free smoke alarm installations in homes that need them and providing fire safety information.
Photo taken on Saturday, April 18, 2015 in Linden, New Jersey.
Erica M. Viviani/American Red Cross
To save lives and reduce fire-related injuries, the American Red Cross launched a nationwide Home Fire Campaign in 2014. The Red Cross is teaming up with fire departments, volunteers, and partners to Sound the Alarm with home fire safety and smoke alarm installation events in at-risk communities across the country.
Red Cross volunteers were smoke alarm installers, disaster safety educators, documenters and transporters for Sound the Alarm at the Rancho Diablo Mobile Home Park in Pacheco, CA.
To find out more and become a volunteer, apply online today at www.redcross.org/volunteer
Photography by Ritch Davidson / American Red Cross
The B.C. government, Food Banks BC and Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (AANDC) are supporting a provincial campaign to help ensure B.C.'s most vulnerable families have working smoke alarms in their homes.
Learn more: www.newsroom.gov.bc.ca/2012/10/food-banks-serve-up-safety...
Red Cross volunteers were smoke alarm installers, disaster safety educators, documenters and drivers, for Sound the Alarm at the Rancho Diablo Mobile Home Park in Pacheco, CA. To find out more and become a volunteer, apply online today at
Photography by Ritch Davidson / American Red Cross
Nearly 1,700 students participated in the Big Event on Saturday, an annual day of service designed to give back to the Oxford and Lafayette County community. Photo by Kevin Bain/Ole Miss Communications
Do you? - www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BOl-sICXj4
She also knows what to do in French: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjjWtPXYNxU&feature=related
A classic Canadian fire safety PSA campaign.
Source: Maclean's, September 1, 1986
Volunteers and staff from the Red Cross participate in Sound The Alarm, an event where volunteers educate the community about fire alarms and install them free of charge, in the Panorama City section of Los Angeles, California, on May 4, 2019. Photo: Jill Connelly for the Red Cross
GONE-You can see more clearly the faded-look painting, and the varying patinas on the different metal sections. It's this level of detail which really elevates this lamp.
Nearly 1,700 students participated in the Big Event on Saturday, an annual day of service designed to give back to the Oxford and Lafayette County community. Photo by Kevin Bain/Ole Miss Communications
Trevor Riggen (right_ of the Red Cross talks to Sonia Ventura about smoke alarm safety as part of Sound The Alarm, an event where volunteers educate the community about fire alarms and install them free of charge, in the Panorama City section of Los Angeles, California, on May 4, 2019. Photo: Jill Connelly for the Red Cross
Our new fire truck is here! We're improving our training experience at the Tennessee Fire Service & Codes Enforcement Academy by upgrading our equipment to provide firefighter recruits with experience using modern firefight equipment.
The North Charleston and American LaFrance Fire Museum and Educational Center houses the largest collection of professionally restored American LaFrance fire apparatus in the country. The museum opened to the public in 2007 and currently houses 18 fire trucks and priceless, one of a kind firefighting artifacts. Complete with interactive exhibits featuring real smoke, hands on displays, a 40 person theater, children’s play area and fire truck simulator the North Charleston and American LaFrance Fire Museum proves to be a remarkable experience and an unforgettable destination for everyone.
Photo by Ryan Johnson
Reading the user directions on your new fire extinguisher while facing a real fire isn’t the best idea.
“When my children told me they wanted to deep-fry a turkey on their visit for Thanksgiving, I went out and bought a fire extinguisher,” said Cheri Sutton, a civilian Department of Defense employee for the U.S. Army Combat Readiness/Safety Center, Fort Rucker, Ala.
Little did she know how important it would be, but not because of a deep-fried turkey.
“I heard a smoke-detector beeping about midnight one night, and thought the battery in it was low,” she explained. “It annoyed me so I got up to turn it off.”
That’s when things got serious.
“As I neared the kitchen, I noticed a light. I knew I hadn’t left one on, and then I saw the fire on top of the stove,” said the Dothan, Ala., resident. “The smoke detector wasn’t beeping like it does when the battery is low, it was beeping non-stop, which added to the overall stress of the situation.”
The foot-high flames were centered on one eye of the stove, so Sutton reached for baking soda in the cabinet, a common household item recommended to quell a fire, but the box was half empty.
“Then I remembered that salt could be used for a fire, and my salt box was there near the stove, but it was empty and I had sat it out as a reminder to buy some more,” she said.
Her next thought was to use water, but she remembered water couldn’t be used on a grease fire, which she thought could be the cause of the fire on the burning stove.
It was then she remembered her newly purchased fire extinguisher.
“When I got the fire extinguisher and walked to the fire, I pulled it out of the box and realized I had never read the instructions on how to use it or what type of fires it was designed to fight,” Sutton said. “So, I stood there in front of the fire trying to read the instructions and just went ahead and used it.”
Luckily for her, it put out the fire.
Her investigation of the fire scene revealed the plastic handle on a spatula resting in a pan above the stove eye had melted and caught fire when the eye was turned on to the ‘high’ setting.
How could that happen?
“My cat, Fella, loves to walk on the countertop and stovetop when no one is around, and I think he accidentally rubbed up against the control knob and turned it on,” she decided.
Fella, who tips the scales at 18 pounds, is the presumed culprit in the incident, but so far hasn’t confessed.
“I’m getting a new stove with vertical controls in the rear to help prevent this from happening again, and my advice to everyone is to read the instructions on your fire extinguisher before you need it for a real fire,” Sutton explained.
According to Michael Wood, manager, Safety and Occupational Health, Ground Directorate, USACR/Safety Center, you should follow these tips when it comes to home fire extinguishers:
• There are different types of portable fire extinguishers for different types of fires, but the best extinguisher to buy for the home is a multi-purpose dry chemical unit.
• Read the directions, which come with the fire extinguisher.
• Make sure you place the fire extinguisher where it can easily be seen and retrieved.
• Remember, fire extinguishers work best on small fires, such as a burning wastebasket or a small grease fire.
For more information on fire protection, you can log on to the U.S. Fire Administration at www.usfa.fema.gov/citizens/home_fire_prev/
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Cheri Sutton, a civilian Department of Defense employee at Fort Rucker, Ala., checks the instructions on a fire extinguisher. She found out the hard way it’s a good thing to do before you really need one. (Story and photo by Art Powell)
The North Charleston and American LaFrance Fire Museum and Educational Center houses the largest collection of professionally restored American LaFrance fire apparatus in the country. The museum opened to the public in 2007 and currently houses 18 fire trucks and priceless, one of a kind firefighting artifacts. Complete with interactive exhibits featuring real smoke, hands on displays, a 40 person theater, children’s play area and fire truck simulator the North Charleston and American LaFrance Fire Museum proves to be a remarkable experience and an unforgettable destination for everyone.
Photo by Ryan Johnson
This burn was conducted by the Santa Lucia Conservancy on about 25 acres of grassland in the Dairy Field Unit on The Santa Lucia Preserve with cooperation from CAL FIRE BEU , Monterey Regional Fire, the Central Coast Prescribed Burn Association (CCPBA), and the Community Services District (CSD).
Photo must be credited: Alix Soliman / Santa Lucia Conservancy
Volunteers with the American Red Cross New Jersey Region, the City of Paterson, Paterson Fire Department, MIRA USA, PSEG, New Jersey State OEM and other community partners joined together to install free smoke alarms for families vulnerable to home fires during Sound the Alarm events in Paterson. Photo taken on Sunday, May 22, 2022 in Paterson, New Jersey by Diane Concannon/American Red Cross
Lee Wilson Disability Access Consultant, Person using a Wheechair in Fire Refuge using Communications
The North Charleston and American LaFrance Fire Museum and Educational Center houses the largest collection of professionally restored American LaFrance fire apparatus in the country. The museum opened to the public in 2007 and currently houses 18 fire trucks and priceless, one of a kind firefighting artifacts. Complete with interactive exhibits featuring real smoke, hands on displays, a 40 person theater, children’s play area and fire truck simulator the North Charleston and American LaFrance Fire Museum proves to be a remarkable experience and an unforgettable destination for everyone.
Photo by Ryan Johnson