The Quesnel Fire Department in Canada hosted local children at its Fire Safety House with the Imagination Park Summer Camp, to offer hands-on fire safety learning.
A tradition that Fire Chief Ron Richert says has been going back for 30 years or more, taking grade three children across the Quesnel School District and teaching the signs of fire danger and household safety equipment in a mobile safety house.
Richert shared: “This is something that the Quesnel Fire Department has been operating every May and June.
“We even go to Nazko and Wells, all the smaller schools, we normally run about 350 to 380 children a year through the Fire Safety House.”
The Fire Safety House has been a part of Quesnel for so long that one of the Directors at the Rec Centre, said her son, now 34 years old, remembers learning fire safety at the Fire Safety House.
Richert added: “A lot of kids remember these lessons as adults; they remember this trailer and doing the fire safety house. So it is really important. Most importantly, the kids absolutely love it.”
The supervisor at Imagination Park Summer Camp, Matisha, said this year the Park decided on a superhero theme this week and decided it was the perfect time to learn from “local heroes” on how to be safe.
The Quesnel Fire Department in Canada hosted local children at its Fire Safety House with the Imagination Park Summer Camp, to offer hands-on fire safety learning, a tradition that dates back over 30 years.
