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Welcome to the First Day of Fire Camp!
We have planned fun activities this week for the whole family. Today's focus will be on fire safety.
Firefighter Dani has a fire safety message to keep kids and families safe!
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Camp Bingo
All camp participants are eligible to win a prize if they earn a BINGO throughout the summer months. [Fire Camp Bingo].
Today's Activities
An adult should choose a safe area outside away from cars, traffic and other obstacles.
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Watch Fire Safety Video
Learn how you can help with fire safety in this video.
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Bucket Brigade [Activity]
Have your own bucket brigade. Fill one large bucket up with water and leave the other empty. Using the small bucket, fill it up and walk quickly to pour into the empty bucket. With a timer, see how quickly you can take a pail of water from one bucket to the other. Keep going until the empty bucket is full. Have other family members join to help. Tell us what your best time is!
Watch Sparky Video
Before the next outside activity, watch Sparky’s video about what’s hot, not hot or sometimes hot.
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Spray Water [Activity]
South County Fire’s Fire Camp does not use real fire for any activities.
With sidewalk chalk, draw a flame on the sidewalk. Use as many colors and as big of flame as you want. Once you’ve drawn the flame, now we have to put the flame out. Using the water garden hose, spray at the bottom of the fire to put the fire out.
Remember kids, this is the only safe way to put out a fire. Firefighters should only try to put out a real fire and only adults should put out a campfire.
Now that you put the sidewalk fire out, let’s try with the water squirter! Using a large bucket filled with water, fill up the water squirter and see how quickly you can knock down the cups. You can draw flames on post-it notes and stick them on the cups then knock them down!
Create a Fire Escape Plan [Worksheet]
Follow the instructions on page 1 to draw a fire escape plan on page 2.
1. Draw all the rooms in your home (use the example to help you).
2. Use a red pen to show the quickest path to get outside from each room.
3. Use a blue pen to show a second path to get outside from each room.
4. Draw a Meeting Spot outside your home where everyone will go as soon as they get out. Label it MEET HERE.
5. When you are all done, hang your map where everyone can see it!
Things to remember:
- You need a Meeting Spot so you know that everyone in your home is out.
- Once you get to your Meeting Spot, call 9 -1-1.
- No one should go back inside — firefighters will arrive shortly and rescue anyone who needs help, even your pets
Great job! You finished day 1. We'll see you tomorrow!
Please share pictures of your kids completing the activities, and we will share on our social media. Contact us at outreach@southsnofire.org.
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