LOVELOCK - Oct.15 marked the end of Fire Safety Week, and here in Pershing County the volunteers of the Lovelock Fire Department conducted training for first- through fifth-grade students.
Firefighters Marco Ortega, Kim Ruiz, Glen Rose and Rich Wagner gave an assembly-style class, teaching students how to be "FIRE SAFE." Not playing with matches, lighters and having a safe meeting spot when emergencies happen were just some of the subjects that were given. This is where students teach the students to remind parents of a meeting spot outside the home where to meet when an emergency happens. Then students were taken out to the school parking lot, where they were shown the equipment that the firefighters use to fight fire and also the first aid equipment when people are injured.
The students of the morning and the afternoon pre-school and the kindergarten classes were taken to a tour of the Lovelock Fire House, where Rose took the students and showed the same aspects of how to be "FIRE SAFE" that the other grade-school students took, and also were treated on how firefighters use the equipment. This was done by having the teachers spray water, and was fun for the teachers.
Fire Safety Week is a project that is sponsored by the Lovelock Volunteer Fire Department in the hopes to reduce or stop the fire danger that claimed 32 lives and 339 injuries in the State of Nevada last year. Volunteers of Lovelock responded to 14 fires in the City of Lovelock and surrounding area.
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