Special
Programs
These are some of our
fire prevention programs. Click on the yellow link to go to that subject.
Juvenile
Firesetter Prevention
Learn
Not to Burn
Stop
Drop and Roll
Burn
Prevention
Smoke
Detector give away
Demonstrations
and Presentations
Juvenile
Firesetter Prevention
The Juvenile
Firesetter Intervention unit’s mission is to reduce the incidence of fire by
establishing a continuum of care for child firesetters and their families in our
community by using community-based intervention programs.
The program focuses
on developing more prevention education resources; providing training on the
early identification of firesetters and expanding intervention and treatment
resources for troubled firesetters. The program works in partnership with
fire service, law enforcement and social service agencies in servicing the needs
of children and youth in their communities.
Learn
Not to Burn
This
program was offered by the Raytown Fire Department and had been presented to the
Raytown School District in 2004 and
2005. For more than 20 years, Learn Not
to Burn (LNTB) has been the theme and focus of National Fire Protection Association's
comprehensive public fire safety education initiatives. Based on NFPA's belief
that fire safety information should be presented in a positive, non-threatening
manner, LNTB teaches people of all ages how to make responsible choices
regarding health and safety.
Children in
preschool through eighth grade can receive critical life safety skills through
the following LNTB education materials:
The LNTB curriculum,
first released in 1979, teaches 22 key fire safety behaviors and is organized in
three learning levels. The curriculum is intended for use by individual
classroom teachers in planning classroom activities and can be re-used from year
to year. Learn Not to Burn incorporates fire safety behaviors into regular
school subjects, so youngsters absorb life-saving information while developing
skills in reading, math, art, history, and science.
Stop
Drop and Roll
This
mini program is given during all tours and visits. It is one of the primary
lessons learned in all of our fire prevention literature. This is a nationally
recognized program and it is used in the prevention literature that is given to
all Raytown School District elementary age children during fire prevention week.
This program's success has been documented for years in preventing burns from
become severe or fatal. We have inserted this information in many of our web
pages on purpose.
The
severity of injury caused by burning clothing can be reduced
by following these three simple steps.
Stop:
Don't run.
Drop:
Drop
immediately to the floor.
Roll:
Cover your face
with your hands and roll over and over to smother the
flames.
Burn
Prevention
This
program is literature based from the Shriner's Burn Foundation. This
organization has a pamphlet of burn safety information as well as information on
the specialty Shriner's hospital system that they support. For more information,
please visit them at:
http://www.shirinershq.org.
For more information about their burn prevention pamphlet, click on this link:
http://www.shrinershq.org/ShrinersOnly/PRForum/Winter98/burntipsbook12-98.html
Smoke
Detector give away
 In
cooperation with the
American Red Cross and the
Kansas City Missouri Fire
Department, the Raytown
Fire District will provide
and install a smoke detector for any Raytown
resident free of charge. The
District will set up an
appointment with you to
come and install the smoke
detector. This program is primarily designed for those that
can not afford a smoke detector or have some reason why they are unable to
install one of their own. Only one per household is available at this time.
Smoke detectors are inexpensive to purchase, less than ten dollars. This
program originally was termed as "Get Alarmed".
Smoke
detectors save lives !
If you don't have
one, get one!
Demonstrations
and Presentations
The
Raytown Fire District can put on demonstrations and presentations of a variety
of subjects ranging from fire prevention information to equipment and apparatus
displays. Occasionally we get invited to neighborhood block parties too. We
frequently have in station tours for anyone that wishes to visit us. We ask that
if you want a tour, to call us and set up a time for a tour. This way we can
minimize any conflicts with our training and maintenance. Sometimes we schedule
the tours or demonstrations and we have to leave to go on a call, but we would
be more than happy to try again if you missed out. The schedule gets filled
quickly during Fire Prevention week (the first week in October), so make plans
early. |
