I am excited to share that the American Red Cross is taking our Home Fire Campaign to the next level. This October, we are launching a unique national event, that saves lives by raising public awareness regarding the devastating impact of home fires in our communities, and installing smoke alarms in at-risk neighborhoods. Home fires kill more Americans than every other natural disaster combined every year. Together we can make a difference by preventing these unnecessary deaths. We already have XXX documented lives saved…we can have many more. We are calling this signature event “Sound the Alarm,” anticipated to be an annual “Red Vest” event that encourages direct participation in our life-saving mission. “Sound the Alarm” is a signature
There are situations that impact your everyday life that’s when we call the “Firefighters”. Their lifestyle is risky, they serve the people. Firefighters truly deserve the respect and honor from the community, at the same time, this is a way of showing gratitude for their courage. The firefighter station that I visited was the fire department in San Fernando called “ Station 98”, and their agency is Los Angeles Fire Department, it has been around since 1886.
Virtually everywhere in the United States is affected to one degree of another by wildland fires. Even if a community is not directly involved with the fire itself, chances are that some of its members have gone to help fight wildland fires in other areas of the country by providing manpower, financial support, or other humanitarian aid.
First off I am going to talk about the B.C Wildfires. The wildfires aren’t a good matter for B.C. In 2012 they made a deal with the government giving registration services for the people in the fires. The Province of B.C strongly encourages all evacuees to register with the Canadian Red Cross, even if aid is not required. Given the current wildfire situation. Red Cross is bringing in additional resources when and as needed to ensure pub
There were many firefighters that were on call that October night, but all their efforts were
Most of these fires are due to poor building conditions, and the deaths and injuries are attributed to the lack of escape possibilities and fire safety measures. The American Red Cross in the Greater New York Region has been taking measures to alleviate this problem. The chapter participates in the organization’s Home Fire Preparedness Campaign, in which volunteers go around neighborhoods and install smoke alarms and and distribute fire-safety information. The campaign is very active in Bronx
The Fire and Burn Foundation is a non- profit health agency in California. It is governed by an all-volunteer Board of Directors all elected by the process stated in agency by-laws. Members of the board include medical and fire service professionals, business and civic leaders, burn survivors and family members of burn survivors and other community leaders. As of 2013, the Foundation was officially turned into an independent local non-profit. It is also the only Fire and Burn Foundation the provides burn survivor support and burn prevention education. Their mission is to reduce the burn injuries and deaths through fire and burn prevention education, burn survivor support programs and funding of burn care research and treatment. There are opportunities
The ultimate goal for this program is to increase shared knowledge. Each child that attends The Pillowcase Project class represents a ‘share’, the more ‘shares’ the more information is taught allowing the information to disseminate throughout the community. The goal for the Metropolitan Atlanta Red Cross Chapter is to teach the preparedness curriculum to 1500 students within the neighboring counties we by the next fiscal year. This program addresses the public health issue of individuals, families, and communities being ill-prepared for an emergency, be it due to a man-made or natural disaster. This program was designed to target
I bid him goodnight, left for home and went to bed. My pager went off at one-thirty in the morning for a reported structure fire, called in by a passing motorist. The address given was that of the elderly couple’s home. My husband, who is also a firefighter was up, dressed and gone before I could get a babysitter for our two sons. I prayer that the motorist had just seen the flickering of the television set and mistaken it for a fire” (Yoder 102).
This event made an immense difference in peoples’ lives who were in Victoria when this occurred with 173 people killed, 414 injured, 2100 homes destroyed and 7562 people displaced. This event did not physically affect myself, although mentally, it did make me realise how dangerous and serious fires can be.
Wildfires are a major issue across the world but especially in California. It affects millions of people every year including burning down thousands of houses. California has been in the biggest drought ever recorded the past two years 2015 & 2016. Extreme drought means extreme wildfires because of the lack of water and the very dry environment. Wildfires don’t only affect the environment but all residents, firefighters, firefighter’s families, and community members that are involved with a wildfire. The one way to help with wildfires is to make all people aware on how to prevent wildfires and or be prepared for wildfires. Some interdisciplinary that are involved with wildfires are Public Service and Public Policy, Communication, Emergency
Much like all events and natural phenomena that pose a threat to civilization, humans have learned to cope with and prevent the loss of human life and destruction of property in devastating blazes that can break out seemingly at random. Fighting fires was not always the science it is today, but due to the use of new technologies and the fundamental understanding of what fire is, how it spreads, how it can kill, and how it is stopped, our protocol when dealing with fires has increased our success rate and continues to grow with applications of engineering, chemistry, and meteorology.
American Red Cross is a organization that was founded in 1881 by Clara Barton. It has established itself as the most well known emergency relief organization devoted to the care of war victims, disaster victims, and the suffering world wide. People can attain community services hours through the American Red Cross as well as benefit from the health and safety programs offered each year. American Red Cross is the largest supplier of blood in the United State. The American Red Cross uses money from donations and fund raisers to provide humanitarian services and programs. The American Red Cross is not a government agency so it relies on volunteers, money
Imagine your smoke detector sounding its screeching alarm every 47 seconds, twenty-four hours day, 365 days a year. That is how often a residential fire occurs in the United States. According to a report issued in September 2007 by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), a nonprofit group dedicated to improving fire safety, U.S. fire departments responded to 412,500 residential fires in 2006. Residential fires cause tremendous damage. Some 2,580 civilians (non-firefighters) lost their lives in residential fires in 2006, an average of one civilian fire death every 3 hours and 24 minutes. That represents 80 percent of all civilian deaths due to fire, even though residential fires make up only 25 percent of all reported fires.
Fire prevention is a term being heard more and more today in America. It is starting to become a standard in today’s fire departments. Fire has the ability to keep us warm and also has the ability to make us homeless. As we grow as community and the technology changes, Fire Prevention needs to be made more of a necessity in our homes today. More homes are being built out of lighter material along with being built closer and closer together. Each can lead to extreme destruction, homes being lost, people being displaced, and even death. Why should we not protect homes and defend them against an enemy that can attack at any minute? Fire prevention needs to start in the home and then be carried onward in our lives. There are very
SAVE YOUR PETS, SAVE YOURSELF! By Fire Chief Gary Curmode/PIO, Copper Mountain Fire Department, CO