Community Education

Fire Prevention Week

Each year in October during National Fire Prevention week, Pacific County Fire District 1 personnel pays daily visits the students at Ocean Park Elementary School to teach fire safety and fire prevention. The curriculum is developed by Fire District 1, and coordinates with the National Fire Protection Association’s (NFPA) theme for the year.

Firefighters visit Kindergarten through third grade classrooms each day to present a fire safety topic. Lesson plans and activities are created for the teachers of older students, to supplement their instruction. Field trips are often arranged during this time for elementary and pre-school aged children to tour the fire station.

Students in all grades are encouraged to make a poster, illustrating what they’ve learned throughout the week, and to work with their families to make an escape plan for their homes. One poster contest winner is chosen from each classroom to have lunch with the firefighters. These ten students are picked up from school in a fire engine. They drive around the neighborhood before stopping at the station for a pizza lunch.

District personnel are committed to educating students about fire and life safety issues. Presentations, tours and educational materials are available for public schools as well as for home-schooled students.