Pre-school Educational Programs/Friendly Fire Fighter

This educational approach teaches the young children about fire fighters and fire safety. The presentation consists of putting on a "Friendly Fire Fighter" demonstration, where the fire fighter dons his full turn out gear and explains all the clothing and equipment that is used. Throughout the program, we constantly reinforce the fact to the children that we are still a friend, even though we may look a lot different and may even look frightening. The emphasis behind this presentation is to show the children what a fire fighter looks like when they go into a fire situation. We stress the idea that fire fighters are always there to help them and that they should never hide or be afraid of the fire fighter.