Fire Safety Visits
Throughout the week of the 7th - 10th August our local FRNSW station crew members Andrew and Joe attended our school to conduct Fire Safety education sessions with each of our class groups.
Children have limited capacity to understand the risks and consequences of fire, and to react promptly and rationally to fire. This lack of knowledge and awareness puts children at risk of misusing fire or being harmed by fire.
Fire safety education for children is the first line of defence against misuse of fire and fire fatalities and injuries. Prevention through education is the single most modifiable strategy that fire services can implement to reduce the risk of fire to children.
FRNSW offers fire safety education programs to:
- improve children’s fire safety knowledge and skills
- facilitate the transfer of knowledge and skill into children’s families, households, and communities
- reduce the risk children will play with fire or be harmed by fire, and
- enhance children’s recognition of, and trust in, firefighters.
