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Fire and life Safety Education

Welcome to the Fire and Life Safety Education website. Our goal is to assemble a compilation of materials and programs that are new, current and relevent to the Canadian Fire Service, Community Policing and Wildfire Protection initiatives. Please go to our Contact Us page and send your ideas that we will use to help this become the most widely used tool in the industry.

Forum: Begin by registering and start sharing your own stories and prevention campaigns or messages. The forum is a multilevel discussion board where some information is available for public dissemination and a higher level is reserved for Professionals only by invitation.
Articles: provided by Fire and Life Safety professionals addressing a wide scope of topics. If you write articles, or have seen articles that are relevent to this industry we will post them.
Statistics: We are endeavoring to accumulate a broad spectrum of Fire Safety Statistics.
Business Directory: Access to businesses unique to this industry. Access products and service listings. Basic listing available for free. (coming soon)

Partnering to Promote Prevention

by Tracy Last

Fire Chiefs and Public Educators across Canada know Last Logos as a company of longevity maintained by a strong commitment to provide quality products and solutions relevant to public education programs.

Perhaps we have worked together, if so you likely know of my tenacious tendencies. I mentioned longevity, I believe my “staying power” comes from a strong belief in finishing projects I start. My interest in projects that relate to fire prevention dates back to 1990 when I started in the family business of marketing and business promotions. But most interesting to me was the job I was given to manage product development and distribution of Smokey Bear educational materials for Wildland Protection Campaigns.
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Wawa gets its first full-time fire prevention officer

by Nikki Filion

Nikki Filion has completed the Fire Prevention Officer Program following years of study, and has the diploma from the Ontario Fire College in Gravenhurst to prove it.

Council recently recognized her years of work with congratulations and commended her perseverance in staying with the program.

Few small communities the size of Wawa actually have a full-time FPO. This is a job usually picked up by volunteers on the fire-fighting team.
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REMEMBER: Fire never takes a summer vacation

Source: newscanada.com

(NC)—Whether you enjoy summer from the deck of your house, the balcony of your apartment or at a cottage, on a boat or RV, remember this: fire never takes a summer vacation.

Keep your family safe from fire and CO threats by checking your place of summer refuge to be sure you have the right alarms installed in all the right places and that they are fully powered. Remember too that fire professionals recommend that both ionization and photoelectric smoke alarms be installed to help ensure maximum detection of the various types of fires that can occur.
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