Fire Safety Week

Theme: Fire Safety Week
Toddler Concept: Fire Prevention

Statistics: Children under 5 years of age are at the greatest risk from home fire death and injury; their death rate is nearly twice the national average. Each year, nearly 488 children ages 14 and under die in home fires, and another 116,600 children are injured from a fire/burn related incident. (Karter, 2010)
Often, children do not learn proper fire safety behavior such as dropping and rolling on the ground if clothing catches fire, crawling instead of running out of a house, or covering their mouths if it is smoky. Fire safety education is important and is powerful in preparing families and children for a fire emergency, especially when practiced.

What you can do at home: Help your children practice proper fire safety behavior. 1. Covering their mouths when smoky, crawling on their hands and knees because smoke and heat rise to the upper level of the room, and stop-drop-and-roll if they catch on fire.
Take your kids to meet a firefighter. More statistics show that many children didn't recognize and or trust the fireman that were there to help them. Causing them to be in the subjected to the heat and flames longer.

This week at flips, we'll be teaching the most basic of fire safety rules. Ask your kids what they learned and go over it with them at home. The more it is practiced, the better chance it will be a reaction when they need it most.