Podcasts about campus firewatch

In this episode we talk with FF/PIO Corey Lewis from the Richmond, Kentucky, Fire Department.  RFD was one of the 25 agencies across the nation that took part in 2018's Town/Gown Fire Safety Community Service Project, a partnership between First Alert, the Michael H. Minger Foundation and Campus Firewatch, that connects college students with fire departments to install smoke alarms in at-risk homes. RFD took it to another level by also doing it on Martin Luther King Day as a community day of service with 53 students from Eastern Kentucky University. By using analytics, they were able to create heat maps identifying the at-risk parts of the community to better focus their efforts.

Virtual Reality and Fire meet up in this episode where we learn how the Poudre Fire Authority and the Fort Collins Museum of Discovery teamed up to produce a virtual reality tour of an off-campus house fire. This is a great educational tool that PFA is using with different audiences and it really places the viewer in the middle of a fire scene - something that they have never seen before. More info is available at http://www.strategicfire.org/crrradio#vr VR Tour on RoundMe https://roundme.com/tour/191762/view/ Fort Collins Museum of Discovery http://fcmod.org/ Poudre Fire Authority http://www.poudre-fire.org/Home/Components/News/News/247/17?backlist=/ Campus Firewatch http://www.campus-firewatch.com/vr

Food trucks are becoming more common on campuses and in communities across the country - but who is regulating them when it comes to fire safety? Several high-profile fires have put this on the forefront, and in this episode we talk with Jacqueline Wilmot and Kristin Bigda from the NFPA about what NFPA is doing and where you can find some information to help you. For more information, go to http://www.campus-firewatch.com/foodtrucks or http://www.nfpa.org/foodtrucks. To subscribe to Campus Firewatch, visit http://www.campus-firewatch.com.

In this episode I am joined by Corey Lewis, the Fire Prevention/Public Information Officer for the Richmond, Kentucky, Fire Department, where we talk about our "Ten Things to Try" when it comes to campus fire safety. These Ten Things to Try are a list of ideas that we have seen in practice and we talk about their return on investment...in other words, their effectiveness in communicating campus fire safety ideas versus the amount of effort that goes into doing it. Some are simple, such as writing articles for the student newspaper, while others are more complex, such as doing live burns of student room mockups. Some are "must do's" while others, while taking some work, can have a big impact. Corey Lewis, my partner on this episode, has been closely involved in campus fire safety, both in Richmond and across the nation. We both worked on the Campus Fire Safety Community Service grant project for the Michael H. Minger Foundation, and also filmed and produced the series Did YOU Know for the Foundation. If you are looking for campus fire safety resources, you can find a lot on the Campus Firewatch page under the "Resource" tab. Campus Firewatch http://www.campus-firewatch.com The Michael H. Minger Foundation also has a lot of resources such as videos, guides, posters and more, all free, that were developed under DHS Fire Prevention and Safety grants. Michael H. Minger Foundation http://www.mingerfoundation.org We also developed a video, The Alarming Truth, that can be streamed, embedded or downloaded. The Alarming Truth http://www.alarming-truth.org Campus Firewatch is a quarterly newsletter focusing on the complex issues of campus fire safety. You can subscribe to it at Campus Firewatch by clicking on "Campus Store." For more information, please contact me at ecomeau@campus-firewatch.com. Ed Comeau

Engaging students in fire safety is a challenge that takes creativity. Paul Otenti, the fire safety officer at Paul Smiths College, has come up with some very creative ideas to get the fire safety message to the students, ideas that go far beyond the standard PowerPoint presentation, ranging from zipper pulls to body bags. You can find more information, tools and resources for campus fire safety at Campus Firewatch http://www.campus-firewatch.com Minger Foundation http://www.mingerfoundation.org

This episode of Campus Firewatch Radio looks at National Campus Fire Safety Month and the free resources you can use in engaging students about fire safety. You can find links to these resources at Campus Firewatch http://www.campus-firewatch.com Minger Foundation http://www.mingerfoundation.org

Campus Firewatch publisher Ed Comeau on an innovative program to arm college students with up-to-date information on campus fire safety. Read more: http://www.nfpa.org/campusfiresafety