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Preparedness and Fire Prevention Resources

Fire Corps teams across the country play a vital role in helping fire/EMS departments ensure their communities are prepared for emergencies of all kinds. In addition, a key function of many Fire Corps programs is to provide fire prevention and life safety education to the community. Use the resources linked below to assist in your preparedness and fire prevention efforts.

Fire Prevention Week Resource Center

Fire Corps National Preparedness Month Resource Center

 
 
 
Fire Corps has created the Home Safety Checklist to help your Fire Corps team implement a home safety check program in your community. The Checklist provides a basic, step-by-step approach to ensure residents in your community are safer and more secure. Use this Checklist to identify hazards in and around the home, as well as hazards that are associated with a variety of household situations, including those where children, older residents, pets, and/or those with disabilities may reside. To order printed copies of the Home Safety Checklist, fill out the Fire Corps Resource Request form and return to Fire Corps at info@firecorps.org email or fax to 202-887-5291.
 
In an effort to assist your program in providing critical services to your community, Fire Corps has partnered with First Alert to provide a smoke alarm donation program for registered Fire Corps programs. Your program may apply for these free smoke alarms by filling out the Smoke Alarm Request Form. Please keep in mind that quantities are limited and restrictions apply.
 
The Install. Inspect. Protect. Campaign is part of the U.S. Fire Administration’s effort to reduce fire deaths and injuries across the nation by urging residents to install smoke alarms in their homes and inspect and maintain them on a regular basis. Working smoke alarms and sprinklers save lives. The campain includes fact and information sheets about smoke alarms and sprinklers; posters; media materials; a community presentation; public service announcements; and more that you can use to spread these important messages in your community. 
 
This guide outlines how CERT and Fire Corps can work together to build stronger communities. It looks at the challenges faced by both programs and shows how working together can help overcome these challenges. This guide also includes profiles of departments that have successfully combined their CERT and Fire Corps efforts to develop a comprehensive program that benefits fire and emergency service departments and the communities they serve.
 
Firefacts.org, which is sponsored by First Alert, provides parents, teachers, and public educators with interactive fire safety learning tools. The free products are geared towards children from kindergarten through sixth grade. Products include coloring pages, word searches, and mazes to teach safety messages in a manner that is fun and entertaining for children. Teachers can download a Jeopardy-style game to use in their classrooms to test their students’ fire safety knowledge. Teachers, public educators, and fire service personnel can also request the 2009 Fire Safety Learning System CD, a complete, interactive resource that keeps students involved and interested.
 
Getting Started With Firewise
Fire Corps and the National Fire Protection Association’s Firewise Communities program partnered to develop a Firewise toolkit. Getting Started With Firewise provides information about building and maintaining communities in a way that is compatible with our natural surroundings and can be used by Fire Corps teams across the nation to help protect property and natural resources from the threat of wildland fires. The toolkit is available to all registered Fire Corps programs. To order, fill out the Fire Corps Resource Request form and return to Fire Corps at info@firecorps.org email or fax to 202-887-5291.
 
All-Ways Fire Safe at Home Module
Fire Corps and the Home Safety Council (HSC) have partnered to develop a fire safety module that can be used by Fire Corps teams across the nation to implement a comprehensive fire and life safety public education program at the local level. Based on the HSC's All-Ways Fire Safe at Home program, this module is comprised of four fire safety education programs that Fire Corps teams can use to promote fire and life safety to community members in different stages of life, from preschool to older adult. To order, fill out the Fire Corps Resource Request form and return to Fire Corps at info@firecorps.org email or fax to 202-887-5291.
 
The US Fire Administration’s Smoking and Home Fires campaign provides information, tips, and resources for preventing smoking-related home fires. Learn more at www.usfa.dhs.gov/campaigns/smoking/.