One Mother’s Fire: The Gail Minger Story

Award winning documentary “One Mother’s Fire: The Gail Minger Story” tells of a fatal campus fire and a mother’s efforts to find the truth The award-winning documentary, “One Mother’s Fire: The Gail Minger Story,” will be released to the public on September 18, the 20th anniversary of her son, Michael’s, death. This documentary tells the […]

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Saving Others

Michael’s story was highlighted in an article by Gail Minger, published in the magazine of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Read the article at Johns Hopkins! My 19-year-old son died in an arson fire set in the hall of his dorm at Murray State University in 1998. Michael was a gifted musician […]

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Mom Who Lost Son In Blaze Pushes For Safety Awareness

BOSTON — When you send your child off to college, there’s a mix of emotions. But one thing that may not come to mind is fire safety. For one woman who lost her son in an on-campus fire, educating students about how to prevent fires or, if necessary, escape one, is a matter of life […]

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Minger Foundation’s Fire Safety Education Resources shared by FireEngineering.com

An innovative set of integrated, multimedia, tools are available for resident assistants (RAs) to use in reaching out to the students in their residence halls. Developed by the Michael H. Minger Foundation, with the help of RAs and students, a series of posters, videos and Web pages all blend together to provide invaluable fire safety […]

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Mother of fire victim promotes campus safety

WKYT – Gabriel Roxas – ‎Sep 26, 2011‎

Her son was killed in a fire in his college dorm more than a decade ago. Since then Gail Minger has made it her mission to promote fire safety on campuses across Kentucky. Monday, Minger visited EKU to help launch a new community service project. Read the article at WKYT.

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Tools for teaching fire safety to college students with disabilities now available

For Immediate Release
Contact: Ed Comeau
ecomeau@mingerfoundation.org
413-896-5718 (cell)

Online guide, videos and research will aid schools and communities across the nation

NICEVILLE, Florida, September 19, 2011 – The Michael H. Minger Foundation (www.mingerfoundation.org) has published a series of online videos, a Guide to Teaching Fire Safety to Students with Disabilities and compiled extensive online research to help address the safety of students with hearing, vision or mobility disabilities or learning disorders. This project is in response to the findings of an analysis done by the Foundation that identified a gap on campuses in delivering fire safety information to this demographic.

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One mother’s tragedy drove her to help residents get free smoke detectors

March 31, 2011 6:51 PM Story by Angel McCurdy from theDestinLog.com NICEVILLE — One woman’s tragedy has evolved into efforts to educate students and help keep her neighborhood safe and fire free. Gail Minger, through the Michael A. Minger Foundation, has been working diligently since her son died in an arson fire in a dormitory […]

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