Andrew Stratton, Lieutenant, Cranford Fire Department
Helge Nordtveit, Captain, Cranford Fire Department
Joseph Ehrhardt, Firefighter, Nottingham Fire Company

This course will provide fire service professionals with a comprehensive overview of the “Fire Is” fire safety education curriculum. The goal of this program, is not only reaching middle school-aged children as they begin to understand fire, but their parents/guardians and care givers as well. The curriculum is centered on a home-based learning system employing television, the internet, and public volunteers to put a new face on fire safety. Session attendees will receive copies of the program, letters of endorsement from pilot schools in NJ who have heralded its success; a course curriculum guide; and simplified instruction on how to implement the program without taxing the schools’ current curriculum or teacher workload. The instructor will present the media and public views on how fire safety and the fire service are portrayed in the media to children and their families.

Thursday, October 11, 2012
Sussex County Fire Academy (At the Sussex Co. Homestead Complex in Frankford
Township)
114 Morris Turnpike (Route 655)
Newton, NJ 07860

Friday, October 19, 2012
Somerset County Emergency Services Training Academy
402 Roycefield Rd
Hillsborough, NJ 08844

Friday, November 16, 2012
Atlantic County Fire Training Center
5033 English Creek Ave
Egg Harbor Township, NJ 08234

For more information visit:

http://www.state.nj.us/dca/divisions/dfs/

http://www.keanfiresafety.com/

Andrew Stratton, Lieutenant, Cranford Fire Department
Helge Nordtveit, Captain, Cranford Fire Department
Joseph Ehrhardt, Firefighter, Nottingham Fire Company

This course will provide fire service professionals with a comprehensive overview of the “Fire Is” fire safety education curriculum. The goal of this program, is not only reaching middle school-aged children as they begin to understand fire, but their parents/guardians and care givers as well. The curriculum is centered on a home-based learning system employing television, the internet, and public volunteers to put a new face on fire safety. Session attendees will receive copies of the program, letters of endorsement from pilot schools in NJ who have heralded its success; a course curriculum guide; and simplified instruction on how to implement the program without taxing the schools’ current curriculum or teacher workload. The instructor will present the media and public views on how fire safety and the fire service are portrayed in the media to children and their families.

Monday, April 30 – Burlington County ESTC
Friday, May 11 – Passaic County Fire Academy
Thursday,May 24 – Ocean County Fire Academy

For more information visit:

http://www.state.nj.us/dca/divisions/dfs/

http://www.keanfiresafety.com/

Thursday, October 13 – Gloucester County Fire Academy
Friday, October 21 – Mercer County Fire Academy
Monday, October 24 – Bergen County Fire Academy

More information:

www.keanfiresafety.com
or
http://www.state.nj.us/dca/divisions/dfs/

More information:

www.keanfiresafety.com
or
www.state.nj.us/dca/dfs/

Original Airdate: October 7, 2010

For more News about New Jersey, visit the NJN News site: http://www.njn.net/news

LBCTV will air the first video of this series, Fire is Black, throughout the month of October. Over the course of the next several months, the station will air all four follow-on Fire Is shows as part of its commitment to public safety. Fire is Black airs daily at 10:30AM and at 7PM on LBCTV.

Kevin Cieri, co-chair of the Long Branch Cable TV Commission, notes “This is the first time that a series that takes an in-depth look at fire safety and prevention as ever aired on LBCTV, and we are proud to provide our residents the opportunity to view a show of such importance to the safety of their homes, lives and property.”

LBCTV is the Government-run public access channel for the City of Long Branch, NJ (Monmouth County), broadcasting over the COMCAST cable TV network on channel 20 over regular cable TV, channels 20 and 78-11 on HDTV, and channels 20 and 902 over the COMCAST digital cable box. LBCTV can also be viewed outside of Long Branch via the Internet on the home page of the Long Branch Cable TV Commission’s website, http://LBCTV20.angelfire.com .

For more information, please contact Kevin Cieri (Co-Chair, Long Branch Cable TV Commission) at LBCTV20@aol.com .

WBMA-TV will air on a daily basis during National Fire Prevention week a 1/2 hour Fire Prevention and Safety Program with the Fire Chief, a tour of Bloomfield’s Fire Safety Trailer and the airing of the Fire Is Black video, part of a five part series of Fire Safety entitled, Fire Is…  WBMA-TV Station Director Bob Duthaler said “we are very excited to work with the Bloomfield Fire Department and NJFiresafety.com to help promote the Fire Is video series. We will with continue over the course of the next few months to air a new Fire Is video and continue the Fire Prevention and Safety Educational Training”.

The Bloomfield Fire Department will continue its Educational and Training Program throughout the year by visiting schools,  homes and on Bloomfield’s Public Safety Open House. The Public Safety Open House will take place on Tuesday, October 19th between 6-9pm at 1 Municipal Plaza, outside the Police and Fire Department Headquarters.  This event will feature the Fire Department, Fire Prevention Bureau, Police Department and the Volunteer Ambulance Squad. This is a family fun night of demonstrations, prevention and safety training and more.

For programming information for WBMA-TV, visit their website at www.wbmatv.com . There you can find programming schedule, live streaming video along with the station’s Video On-Demand Page (Media Center), where you can watch station programming at your own leisure. Click on the video below to watch Bloomfield’s Fire Prevention Video created by WBMA-TV and the Bloomfield Fire Department.

 A long time advocate of Fire Safety programs, Dr. Field describes the mechanisms of a new interactive program he has fostered into existence.  As Dr. Field explains; “Very few fires begin in school.  Most fires begin at home.  Doesn’t It makes  sense to bring Fire Safety education into the home rather than keep it in school?”  To that end, Dr. Field  marshaled schools, fire departments and local cable television stations to join forces.  These combined forces will bring Fire Safety  into the home on many levels.

An exciting, new interactive aspect, the website, www.NJFireSafety.com completes the outreach efforts by offering up video on demand, posting timely updates and offering visitors a place to exchange comments and offer suggestions. 

The first in the series of Fire Education programs; “Fire is Black” will be launched during the first week in October.  Additional segments will be introduced on a monthly basis

JAG member stations will air the first video during Fire Prevention Week and continue to air the show throughout the month.  During the course of the next several months they will continue their commitment to fire safety as the air the rest of the Fire Is Series.  Jersey Access Group ( www.jagonline.org ) President, Bob Duthaler went on to say ” part of JAG’s Mission Station states ‘for the purpose of educating and informing the public about their communities’, and we feel that Fire Prevention is part of that.”  He went on to say, “that’s why were glad to be part of this program that can be found on www.njfiresafety.com and getting the word out to our community”.

“We are thrilled to be part of this exciting new outreach program.” Notes Sharon Colucci, Station Manager of Montclair TV34 and Vice Chairperson of the Jersey Access Group.   “Dr. Field is fervent about his mission to get Fire Safety programs into as many homes as possible.” Colucci adds;   “Combining local PEG (Public, Educational, Government) programming with an interactive web-site will launch safety education onto a new direction.”

NJ State Law requires that all schools in the state teach fire safety and prevention.  While Stop, Drop and Roll lessons are fun and informative, a NJ Homeland Security Grant is enabling schools to go beyond the basics and help teach the more, serious life-long lessons of fire safety.  After viewing the videos, there will be four questions that students/parents will be asked to answer with a “yes” or “no”.  After the six months of videos, a quiz will be posted for the students.  The Cranford School District will announce a winner’s name on their website.