The Members of Kindersley Fire spend a lot of time with our pre kindergarten and kindergarten aged kids. We believe that making them comfortable with Fire Fighters is one of the most important things we can teach them. We don’t want them to hide from us during an emergency, we want them to view us as a safe person and come to us for help.

Grade 1/2 kids often learn about escape plans, why we get low, and to get out and stay out. As we get into older children we start to teach about the importance of knowing there rural address, or street addresses. We teach them about all kinds of safety not just fire safety, and that they can call 911 for all sorts of emergencies.

We have learned that children will often take what we teach them and remind their parents of the importance of fire safety. We have heard stories of kids making Mom or Dad test the smoke alarms or replace one that was missing.

Some of the our biggest fire safety helpers are the kids we teach, they take every thing they hear and re-educate their family.

Senior homes require a special conversation, we often speak of over loaded electrical circuits, cooking safety and the importance of participating in their buildings fire drills. Most of the senior complex’s also use a home away system of their choice, these systems are incredibly useful to the fire service as it helps us know if someone may be missing or not during and emergency.

Open houses are a great way for us to interact with our community. We get to build on the trust with the kids, educate family’s and even recruit new members. We annually hold an open house during fire prevention week, often we have activities for the kids, food and fire truck rides or tours.

The party program was designed to teach grade 10 students what Happens during a car accident. They get to see first hand everything from the Emergency Response to an incident, the incident unfold and the aftermath. The students learn from  medics, firefighters, police and funeral homes exactly what happens.