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• Child Alerts Family to Fire Danger

  Thanks in part to a young child, 22 people were safely evacuated from a burning apartment building. In Clarkston, Georgia, a fire started around 1:30 a.m. in the kitchen of one unit in the building. A young boy woke up when he smelled smoke. Read More... Posted Aug 08 2008, 09:01 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with no comments Filed under: children, parents, child, apartment, georgia, fire safety, smell, firefighter, smoke, wake up, evacuate, clarkston, building

• Teaching Fire Safety: How to Scare the Crap out of Your Kids

  "Stop, drop, and roll." Words to strike fear into the heart of third graders the world over. When I was in 3rd grade we had two field trips, one to the Hershey factory in California (AWESOME!), and the other to a fire station (FREAKING SCARY!). I had fire-related nightmares for years afterward.  My second-grader has some sort of fire safety presentation this week, and my preschooler saw fire trucks today, and I'm steeling myself for the inevitable nightmares that are going to result. Would a life-sized robotic Dalmatian help, I wonder?   Read More... Posted Oct 09 2007, 07:33 AM by Karen Murphy with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: kids, safety, third grade, fire safety