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National Fire Prevention Week is held every October and is an opportunity
for the country to take some time to focus on Fire Prevention. Lebanon Fire Company takes advantage of this
week to work with our local schools and day care centers to teach fire prevention and preparation.
This years theme, "Use Candles with Care: When you go out, blow out." is intended to help bring
attention to the risks associated with the use of candles. In 2001, candles started 18,000 home fires and caused 190 deaths.
Take the Candle IQ test.
Help to teach your kids candle safety, preview the NFPA's Kids Safety Page and then
come back to the site and use it as a guide to talk to your kids about fire safety.
The membership of Station 18 also take time during Fire Prevention Week to visit the local schools.
Our crews hold fire drills at both the Lebanon Elementary School and the Kiddie Academy day care
center. These fire drills consist of sounding the building's fire alarm and then carefully watching
the evacuation of the students and faculty. When these drills are complete, the fire company will submit a
letter to each facility with any recommendations for improving their fire
evacuation procedures.
We then take the opportunity to allow the kids to watch our firefighters gear-up from street clothes
into full turn-out gear with SCBA. Then the kids are encouraged to look, listen and feel
what a firefighter looks like and sounds like when in full gear and breathing off of SCBA. As seen in several
of the following photos, when a firefighter is in full gear and breathing from his SCBA, the only "human" trait that
is visible are his eyes. To better understand why this is an important concept, please visit our Firefighter Gear-up page.
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