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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 (Includes fire prevention and safety tips sheets)

Fire Corps National Preparedness Month Resource Center

Pandemic Influenza Resource Center

Disaster Preparedness and Financial Literacy

Home Safety Month Resources and Tips

Home Safety Checklist
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. You must be a registered Fire Corps program to access this resource. To order printed copies of the Home Safety Checklist, fill out the Fire Corps Resource Request form and return to Fire Corps at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it email or fax to 202-887-5291. Additional resource: Click here for a First Alert smoke alarm installation demonstration video.

Smoke Alarm Request Form
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.

Sound the Alarm Campaign
Sound the Alarm allows teams of fire department members, Fire Corps volunteers, and building officials to conduct home safety checks, install smoke alarms, and complete follow up evaluations. The International Code Council is working with the National Volunteer Fire Council to execute the program in targeted states. Resources are available to departments and Fire Corps teams that would like to execute a similar campaign in their community. Resources include a customizable flyer and press release, banner ads, video PSA, smoke alarm installation video and flyer, state-by-state residential smoke alarm requirements, Home Safety Checklist, smoke alarm data sheet, After a Fire form, and safety tips and resources for households.

First Alert Smoke Alarm Installation Video
Learn how to install a SA340CN 10-year smoke and fire alarm with this demonstration video from First Alert.

USFA Install. Inspect. Protect. Campaign
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.

CERT & Fire Corps: Working Together To Build Stronger Communities
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. You must be a registered Fire Corps program to access this resource.

Ready Responder Toolkit
The Department of Homeland Security's Ready Campaign designed this toolkit to provide emergency response agencies with a series of planning tools to help prepare their personnel and their families for emergencies. The toolkit provides resources on how to develop an organizational preparedness plan; examples of how to promote individual, family, and organizational preparedness; and engage other agencies and departments in these efforts. There are also sample newsletter articles, media pitch templates, and other press materials that can be used to develop and distribute internal and external preparedness messaging.

Firefacts.org
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 This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it 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 This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it email or fax to 202-887-5291.

Fire Safety for Children
FEMA, the U.S. Fire Administration, and the National Commission on Children and Disasters have teamed up to call families and communities to take action to keep our nation's children safe. Visit this site to find resources and tips to share in your community to prevent fires and protect children.

USFA Smoking and Home Fires Campaign
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/.

 
Home Safety
HomeInsurance.org provides information to help residents ensure all rooms in the home as well as the surrounding area are safe. Find specific tips for kitchen, bathroom, and bedroom safety, walls/floors/furniture/doors and window safety, electrical/heating and cooling safety, garage and laundry safety, and outdoor/backyard/pool safety.

Firefighters Support Foundation
The Firefighters Support Foundation is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit organization dedicated to assisting firefighters and rescue personnel in performing their jobs effectively and safely. Their primary mission is to develop and provide, completely free of charge, video-based training programs for fire, EMS, search and rescue, and Emergency Management personnel. They also offer, free of charge, programs that are of interest and relevant to the fire service support community, such as their "When a Child Dies on a Call," "Emergency Incident Rehabilitation," and "After Action Self-Evaluations" programs.