NASFM Public Education Programs for Web Access

Freddie Fire Safety Curriculum©
http://www.llr.state.sc.us/freddie.asp
Freddie Fire Smart Kids - K-1st Grade Curriculum
Freddie Fire Safety Friends - 2nd - 3rd Grade Curriculum
Freddie Gets Fire Smart - 4th - 5th Grade Curriculum

The "Freddie" curriculum is a comprehensive fire safety curriculum developed to teach children in kindergarten through fifth grades important fire prevention and survival skills. The series consists of three curricula, one for kindergarten and first grades, one for second and third grades, and another for fourth and fifth grades. Participating students are learning positive fire safety behaviors that will extend into adulthood. Fire safety behaviors learned through the "Freddie" curriculum have already been attributed to saving lives. Not only do these lessons benefit now, but also behaviors learned will ultimately have a favorable long-range impact on the fire problem in South Carolina. Since the inception of the "Freddie" curriculum during the 1993-94 school year, fire deaths among elementary school aged children continue to decrease.

Public Fire Education Programs Targeted at High Risk Audiences
South Carolina State Fire Marshal's Office
141 Monticello Trail
Columbia, South Carolina

1. Fire Safety For Older Americans: Visually Impaired, Deaf or Hard of Hearing, and Mobility Impaired
2. South Carolina's Fire Problem: Heating and Cooking
3. Alcohol, Drugs and Smoking: A Deadly Combination
4. Get Out and Stay Alive - College Dorm Safety

This course is designed as a train-the-trainer program to assist fire and life safety educators in delivering public fire education programs within their community. Programs have been developed specific to South Carolina's fire problems associated with heating and cooking related fires; fires involving older citizens; fires associated with alcohol, drugs, and smoking; and college dorm safety, but can easily be adapted for use in other states. USFA materials were used as resources and supplements. A PowerPoint presentation complete with lesson plan and resource materials for each of the above targeted audiences can be downloaded.