Brandon, Manitoba, Canada Public Education, 1 Oct 2021

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From YouTube: Messages For Fire Prevention Week

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City of Brandon Mayor Rick Chrest, Brandon Fire & Emergency Services Chief Scott McDonald, and Brandon Fire & Emergency Services Public Educator, Heather Penner, bring special messages for Fire Prevention Week 2021.

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Well, hello: everyone I'm really pleased to be here to uh help kick off the fire prevention week and.

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All of the activities that will uh occur- my name is rick crest. I'm the mayor of the city of brandon.

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And normally I get to come and and see you in person, but uh we're still being very precautionary.

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And putting this together virtually so I want to congratulate and commend everyone who's going.

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To spend some time learning more and more about fire prevention, all of the students and certainly.

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All of the teachers and eas that are going to be involved in making sure this message gets out in.

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Our community and rest assured it's an extremely important uh activity that we all need to focus on.

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Every year, so I want to commend brandon fire and emergency services for all. They do to keep our.

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Community safe and for continuing to spread the word for fire prevention. Well, we've got a very.

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Highly trained and highly equipped uh fire service, certainly, we all would prefer to.

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Prevent fires in the first place and that's what all of this program is about and what all of you.

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Will be playing a key role in doing for your community, so I'm now going to turn.

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It over to our fire chief, scott mcdonald, who's, going to give us a great message.

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Hi there, I'm chief mcdonald, brandon fire emergency services. I would like to welcome you all to.

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Fire prevention week, which this year is being recognized october 3rd to october 9th. This year's.

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Theme is learn the sounds of fire safety. It is so important to know what your smoke alarm sounds.

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Like and what to do, when you hear it another kind of alarm you need to listen for is carbon monoxide.

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Alarms, it's really important to go outside into fresh air if your carbon monoxide alarm is beeping.

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Carbon monoxide is very different from smoke. That's why we need to have special alarms for it.

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You can see smoke, you can smell smoke and you can taste smoke, but not with carbon monoxide. You can't.

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See it you can't smell it and you can't taste it that's why we need special alarms to help you.

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Exit the building safely always go to your safe meeting place that you've picked out as a family.

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That's where you call 911 from and that's where you wait for the fire department to arrive, wait.

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Outside until a firefighter or an adult, tells you it is safe to go back inside heather, our public.

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Education officer is going to tell you more about what those alarms actually sound like in a minute.

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I'd just like to say that there are lots of fun activities planned for you this week and I've.

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Heard that you can even win prizes I'll now, turn it over to heather, have fun and be safe.

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Hi everybody I'm heather from brandon fire and emergency services. I just want to welcome you.

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Guys to fire prevention week, it's going to be a little bit different this year than we normally do.

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It's going to be virtual, but we're still going to have lots of fun.

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Learn lots about fire safety, so our theme this year is learn the sounds of fire safety.

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That might make you think of like fire truck sirens, but that's not why we're.

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Talking about this week, we're actually talking about smoke, alarms and carbon monoxide detectors.

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So we've got to know what they sound like right, so I actually have one here to show you.

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So this is your smoke alarm. There's a button right on it, I'm going to press this button, so you can.

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Hear what it sounds like it's going to beep three times so your smoke, alarm, it'll beep three times.

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It waits a little bit and then it beeps three times again. So this is going to be loud, but.

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So when you hear that sound, you guys know what to do right, you go outside. You go to your safe.

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Meeting place, that's where you wait for well. First of all, you gotta call 9-1-1 from there.

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Not from inside the house, you want to be outside where it's safe and then call 9-1-1. That's where.

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You're going to wait for the fire department to come, and then you wait outside until a.

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Firefighter or an adult tells you that it's safe to go back inside there's another sound.

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That your smoke alarm can make, though, when it beeps, like that, that's when it smells smoke.

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But it can also make this little chirp sound it'll, be like a chirp and then it waits and a chirp and.

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Then it waits and then a chirp, so that's not when it smells smoke. That means there's something wrong.

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With your smoke alarm, usually it's the battery. They have these little batteries like this in it.

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And if your smoke alarm is chirping, that means your battery isn't working anymore.

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So it's really important that we change the batteries before they go dead right because.

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We need your smoke alarm to work all the time. So if you hear that chirp sound, that means there's.

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Something wrong with it, and you know what, if you put a new battery in it and then it still chirps.

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That means there's something else wrong with it, and you're gonna need a whole new smoke alarm.

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Okay, so those are the sounds for the smoke alarm. The other one we talked about is a carbon monoxide.

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Detector, so this one it actually plugs into the wall, but it also has a battery backup in it. So.

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The smoke alarm it beeps three times your carbon monoxide detector, it beeps four times and it beeps.

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A little bit faster than the smoke alarm, so I'm going to press this button, so you can hear it.

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So see how it was like faster beeping, so that's the carbon monoxide.

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Detector, okay, so I hope that won't keep beeping.

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So same thing, when you hear your carbon monoxide, detector, beeping you've got to go outside right.

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Away into fresh air call 911 from your safe meeting place and wait outside until help comes.

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Okay, so now, let's talk about how you guys can win a prize so there's lots of activities for.

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You guys to do it's going to everything is on our website, so it's brandon.ca/fire.

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So you go to the fire department's website and then, when you scroll down a little bit, you see.

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Sparky right there and you click on sparky, there's a bit of information about our theme that you can.

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Read first and then, as we scroll down, then there's a message for the teachers to tell you how this.

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Program is working and then the first thing you'll see are the videos. So that's where this video can.

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Be found and then there's other videos that you can watch as well. One is on the great chicago fire.

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Which, actually, it happened a really long time ago? It was a huge fire and that's why we have fire.

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Prevention week every year to learn more about fire safety, so we don't have big fires like that.

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Again, there's also one on how to make a home escape plan, and then we've got some really.

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Cool ones, so you guys can learn about the fire department. We've got one from the technical.

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Rescue team: you can see what they do. You can see them in action. We've got one from the water rescue.

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Team, so you can see how they do water rescues on the river or if it's in the winter they might.

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Have to do it on the ice, so you can learn all about that and there's also an ambulance tour.

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So then you can see all the cool stuff. That's on the ambulance, you'll be able to look inside.

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And see all the stuff that they have, that they bring when they go on an ambulance call.

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So after the videos then there's the heading of class activities, so these activities are broken.

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Up into age groups, there's kinder to grade two and then there's grade three to five.

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And then grades six to eight, so you guys there's stuff for everybody to do according to your age. So.

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You should be able to have lots of fun doing these activities and learning about fire safety. Also.

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On the left hand, side under the public education tab you'll see that there is um the brandon fire.

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And emergency services- virtual library. So when you click on the virtual library, then there's.

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A lot of activities and books that are read aloud and you can find lots of resources there.

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So now we actually want to talk about the prizes that you can win.

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So, in order to win a prize, your teacher has we call we're calling this a score card. Your.

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Teacher's going to keep track of all your names here and then we've got categories of the videos.

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The activities and then the student submissions. So as you do these things, your teacher is going to.

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Keep track of what you're doing give you a check mark and then, at the end of the week there is an.

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Entry form that your teacher is going to fill out one entry from every classroom and then I'm gonna.

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Come back at the end of october and I'm gonna pull out one name and see who wins a prize. So the.

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Winner is going to get this bag, it has the brandon fire department, logo on it, and it's got lots of.

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Really great stuff in it, the wheat kings gave some stuff there's a hockey stick. They've got a banner.

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In there and then lots of businesses have given us um coupons and vouchers that you guys can use.

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So there's one for fun time: pottery you guys can go swimming or skating for free at the sportsplex.

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Thunderbird bowl has one just for kids. Has one there's a free happy meal from mcdonald's? I know.

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You guys love mcdonald's, there's. Also you can go to the theater. You can get into the theater to a.

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Movie for free and get popcorn and there's tokens for fun and games, there's tons of stuff in there.

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You guys so in order to have a chance to win, though you've got to do the work. You've got to.

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Learn about fire safety, it's going to be fun and then get your name in for the draw. So when I come.

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And draw um that name, I'm also going to draw one more name: that's going to go into a grand.

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Prize draw so then we'll pick one name from all the schools in brandon and then I've got another.

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Prize here from thunderbird bowl, it's a bowling and pizza party. So you guys you can have a chance.

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To win that as well- and I just hope you have lots of fun as you go through all the videos and the.

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Activities and there's some at-home stuff to do as well. There is we wanted to give you an opportunity.

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To use your imagination and be creative, you can do artwork draw a picture paint if you want to write.

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A story you could include some artwork with your story make sure it's about fire safety.

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And then we also have a sheet to do your home escape plan. So there's a video that goes with.

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That watch the video, and then you know how to make your home escape plan. Do that at home with.

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Your moms and dads and your brothers and sisters so everybody knows the plan and then there's also.

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A home fire safety checklist, there's part for you guys to do at home and there's part for your.

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Parents to do so when you do those things bring that back, show your teacher so that they're going.

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To know to make sure that they give you the check marks for that, and then they can put your name.

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Into the draw thanks, everybody have a great time learning about fire safety and I'll see you soon.