Parents waste the time given by Central Pierce firefighters to educate elementary students on fire safety procedures unless they put that information to use in their own homes.
As part of the Great Escape Program, Central Pierce firefighters make 50 school visits each year to educate children on fire safety, sending them away with a homework assignment – to check smoke detectors and create an escape plan for their families.
Firefighters have no way of knowing if students don’t do the homework assignment, but they have shining examples of students who do; most recently on April 7 when 10-year-old Anthony Mitchell led his family to safety. His mother is sure that if he hadn’t pressed to come up with an escape plan only a month earlier, they wouldn’t have survived their smoke-filled house.
It’s a good lesson for other families who brush off the safety plan as an unnecessary task. Help firefighters teach children to become passionate about safety.
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