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The FREE Neighbors Public Safety Service from Ring allows your agency to connect with citizens using the Neighbors App. Unlike social media, you, as the fire department, can share hyper-local, critical info via push notification as an official identified source. For investigators, we offer the ability to enlist the help of the community by sending a request for the video to specific neighborhoods.

SCHOOLS

Use the Georgia Unified Community Risk Reduction guide on www.georgiafire.org to fit school education into the curriculum. Work with the school to bring messages using Zoom, Skype or Microsoft Teams into classrooms.​

  • Show a video but then create interaction during Q and A's

  • If the classroom is on a lower educational level, go to their window and call into the teacher, especially if doing friendly firefighter. Be careful of other windows that can see as well.

  • Try to go in the schools to deliver the message. Have others outside available to show the engine outside. 

  • Take Flat Sparky and take pictures

  • NFPA https://www.nfpa.org/events/fire-prevention-week

  • School Fire Drill – instead of being inside, talk to the group outside after it is over and compare the school drill to what they need to have at home.

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  • Safety info with delivery service bags or that banks can hand out

  • Use the marquee from different local theaters

  • Safety coloring sheets with kids' menus

  • Fire Prevention Parade

  • Driveway Safety Art Contest – Winners get certificate and goodies

  • Firefighter Cookbook with educational information mixed in

  • Outdoor movie nights

  • Live weekly event highlighting a safety message like Theo Thursday with DeKalb Fire

  • Send safety info and activities with lunches for kids that go out through rec departments and schools

  • Drive-thru education like Touch-A-Truck

  • Read books virtually

  • Drive-in Movie Night in vehicles

  • Modified tours for smaller groups; sign up online for more personalized tours. Could just have the engine outside and explain what they could see through the windows if you want to leave the group outside.

  • If your department doesn’t have something, another department may and could swap assistance.

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Here are ways to continue the conversation at home for fire safety education:

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NEIGHBORS BY RING APP

COMMUNITY

There are numerous ways for you to get involved with the community to deliver the message: 

HOME

  • Virtual Home Inspections – Facetime/Webex that homeowners can use on their phone and go room to room talking about potential hazards, including smoke alarms

  • Safe Sitter including Safe@Home program for grades 4-8

  • Red Cross Babysitting course 

  • Pillowcase Project with the American Red Cross has virtual offerings 

  • Emphasize practicing Fire Drills in the Home

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