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14,-17,- INDIAN 4,-1v INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY SERVICES MEMORANDUM TO: Honorable Emergency Services District Board of Commissioners THROUGH: Douglas M. Wright, Director Department of Emergency Services FROM: John King, Fire Chief Department of Emergency Services DATE: February 26, 2001 SUBJECT: Approval for District to Accept Title for a Fire Safety House Used to Train Children in Fire Safety Donated by the Vero Beach Firefighters Association and Vero Beach Volunteer Fire Department For public fire protection organizations, fire and life safety education is a key strategy for preventing incidents, injuries, and death. For America's children, playing with fire is probably one of the most under recognized problems facing the nation today. According to a 1997 publication by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), children playing with fire, typically matches or lighters, accounts for one of every ten fire deaths, and is the leading cause of preschooler fire deaths, accounting for more than one in three. The NFPA reports that one third of the children who died in fires last year set the fires that killed them. Nationally, arson is the number one crime committed by juveniles—who account for 56 percent of all arson arrests. In one form or another, fire and fife safety education has existed since at least the early 1900s. With rare exceptions, fire and life safety education activities were occasional and fragmented until the National Commission on Fire Prevention and Control delivered their nationwide study to President Nixon in 1973. When it was determined that young children were a high-risk group, public educators and fire service organizations assisted in the promotion of national fire safety programs. Over the years, the more notable programs include Learn Not to Burn and Slop, Drop, and Roll. School-based programs, where the fire department does all the teaching directly to the students in their classrooms or auditoriums, have been very popular in reaching children. Their success can be attributed to low costs, reaching the target group, and participatoryeducation lends itself to learning with younger audiences.