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14.A.2. ACCEPT TITLE TO A SURREY FIRE SAFETY HOUSE TO <br />TRAIN CHILDREN IN FIRE SAFETY - DONATED BY VERO BEACH <br />FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION AND VERO BEACH VOLUNTEER <br />FIRE DEPARTMENT <br />The Board reviewed a Memorandum of February 26, 2001: <br />TO: Honorable Emergency Services District Board of Commissioners <br />THROUGH: Douglas M. Wright, Director <br />Department of Emergency Semces <br />FROM: John King, Fire Chief <br />Department of Emergency Services <br />DATE: February 26, 2001 <br />SUBJECT: Approval for District to Accept Title for a Fire Safety House Used to Train Children <br />in Fire Safety Donated by the Vero Beach Firefighters Association and Vero Beach <br />Volunteer Fire Department <br />For public fire protection organizations, fire and life safety education is a key strategy for preventing <br />incidents, injuries, and death. For America's children, playing with fire is probably one of the most <br />under recognized problems facing the nation today. According to a 1997 publication by the National <br />Fire Protection Association (NFPA), children playing with fire, typically matches or lighters. accounts <br />for one of every ten fire deaths: and is the leading cause of preschooler fire deaths, accounting for <br />more than one in three. The NFPA reports that one third of the children who died in fires last year <br />set the fires that killed them. Nationally, arson is the number one crime committed by juveniles—who <br />account for 56 percent of all arson arrests. <br />In one form or another, fire and life safety education has existed since at least the early 1900s With <br />rare exceptions, fire and life safety education activities were occasional and fragmented until the <br />National Commission on Fire Prevention and Control delivered their nationwide study to President <br />Nixon in 1973. When it was determined that young children were a high-risk group, public educators <br />and fire service organizations assisted in the promotion of national fire safety programs Over the <br />nears, the more notable programs include Learn Not to Burn and Stop, Drop, and Roll <br />School-based programs, where the fire department does all the teaching directly to the students in <br />their classrooms or auditoriums, have been very popular in reaching children Their success can be <br />attributed to low costs, reaching the target group, and participatory education ]ends itself to learrung <br />with younger audiences. <br />March 6, 2001 <br />E.S.D. <br />I <br />