Fire Safety Program Research Articles

Evaluation of a fire-safety training program for preschool children

Children under the age of 5 are 2.5 times more likely to die from fire than any other childhood age group. The work described here is an empirical evaluation of a fire-safety program for preschool children, involving 10 child-care facilities and 443 children ages 3, 4 and 5 years. Children in six centers received an 18-week fire-safety training program called Kid Safe. Children in four other centers were assigned to the delayed-treatment condition and constituted the comparison group. All children were pretested using a comprehensive measure of fire-safety knowledge before the start of the study. The same test was readministered to all children following presentation of the program to the treatment group. At each of the three ages, children in the treatment group showed significantly greater knowledge gains from pretest to post-test than did children in the comparison group. Interestingly, 3-year-olds showed the greatest change of any age group. These findings provide support for the value of training preschool children in fire safety as an important strategy for injury prevention in this age group. © 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

12. The Potential Benefits of a Fire Safety Program Within Emergency Medical Services: A Point-of-Contact Intervention

Purpose: To determine how often house fires occur at addresses visited previously for emergency medical services (EMS) and were these visits missed opportunities for a point-of-contact fire safety intervention.Method: Retrospective analysis of all Fire Department (FD) responses during 1994. Data studied with descriptive statistics: reason for response, property type, dollar loss estimate, injuries, fatalities, fire cause, smoke detector operation.Results: The FD responded to 94,378 requests for service at 43,556 addresses. 27,406 addresses generated one response. However, 16,150 addresses had multiple requests, receiving 66,972 responses. For the multiple requests, 1,162 addresses had a fire condition of which 728 addresses requested EMS prior to the fire condition. 215 were one/two-family dwelling addresses receiving 489 responses; mean 2.3 EMS responses prior to the fire condition. 182/215 (85%) of these addresses had complete data, incurring a dollar loss estimate of [US]$2,017,470, 33 injuries and 0 fatalities. The top five causes for the fire condition were children playing with smoking materials, arson, suspicious, scorched food and undetermined. 87/182 (49%) of the one/two-family dwellings had a smoke detector present. However, only 31/182 (17%) of the dwellings had an operational smoke detector.

Decision analysis in fire safety inspection for high-rise buildings

The firesafety inspection program is put into proper focus by a rational approach to decision analysis. In examples, the consequences of the decision and the outcome are expressed in monetary units to concur with the general engineering practice.

THEY CALLED IT FIREPROOF (28 minutes, color or black and white). Available from National Film Board of Canada, 680 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10019. An effective lesson in fire safety, showing how minor infractions in fire regulations added up to a major disaster in a modern general hospital. Will be useful for fire safety programs in psychiatric hospitals,

THEY CALLED IT FIREPROOF (28 minutes, color or black and white). Available from National Film Board of Canada, 680 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10019. An effective lesson in fire safety, showing how minor infractions in fire regulations added up to a major disaster in a modern general hospital. Will be useful for fire safety programs in psychiatric hospitals,

A Visual Aid for a Fire Safety Program

A Visual Aid for a Fire Safety Program

A Visual Aid for a Fire Safety Program

A Visual Aid for a Fire Safety Program