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The Minger Foundation has created an RA Guide to Teaching Fire Safety, series of posters, and videos that you can use in helping to teach fire safety to the students on your floors.
Action Steps
- Print out the posters and use them on your bulletin boards.
- Talk about fire safety using the To Know and Action Items in the Guide to Teaching Fire Safety which contains more information, talking points and other resources that will help you.
All of the students will eventually be leaving the residence halls and living on their own. The fire safety messages you give them are not only for while they are living in the residence halls but, literally, for the rest of their lives. What they learn here will stay with them forever and may, someday, save their lives.
To know…
- There is a lot more information that your students need to know to be fire safe.
- You are providing them with some of the key pieces of information, but if they want more, there are links on the pages the posters are sending them to.
- They need to know this information not only for when they are living in the residence halls but for when they move out.
- They need to know this information for when they are visiting friends who are living off-campus.
- Once they move out, this might have been the only time they get fire safety information.
- These are resources that you can use for bulletin boards.
- It is important to make them aware of fire safety because these are lessons for life.
- Over 85% of the campus-related fire deaths happen in off-campus housing where most of the students live.
- When the students move out of the residence halls into off-campus, they need to know these lessons
What you can do
- You are a key part of getting this information in their hands. You can help save lives.
- Print out the posters and use them on your bulletin boards.
- Talk about fire safety using the To Know and Action Items in the guide.
- The Guide to Teaching Fire Safety to Students contains more information, talking points and other resources that will help you.
Videos
There are a series of videos that you can encourage your students to watch online to learn more about fire safety. You can send them the links to these videos.
Resources
We have created a series of posters that you can print out (they are PDF 11”x17”) and put on your bulletin boards.
- Soccer poster has two messages:
- Basketball poster has two messages:
- Pizza poster
- Cause of fire poster has three fires with compelling stories about them that the students can read by visiting the cause of fire stories page.
- RA Guide to Teaching Fire Safety This short guide has some more detailed information and resources about teach fire safety to students.
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Links
These are links to online resources that you can use for more information. Some of them are posters that you can print out and put on your bulletin boards.
- United States Fire Administration
- Smoke alarms
- 10 Easy Tips on Smoke Alarms
- Campus Fire Safety
- Candles
- Cooking
- Escape planning
- Fire Sprinklers
- National Fire Protection Association
- Smoke alarms PDF poster
- Fast Facts About Smoke Alarms
- Campus and Dorm Fire Safety Tips web site or poster (PDF)
- Candles web site or Candles PDF poster
- Cooking web site or Cooking PDF poster
- Escape planning web site or escape planning PDF poster
- Smoking fire safety web site or smoking poster (PDF)
- Sprinklers web site or sprinklers PDF poster
- Minger Foundation A site focusing on fire safety for college students and students with disabilities. There are a number of videos and other resources on this web site to help you.
- Campus Firewatch A site devoted to campus fire safety. There are a number of resources on this site including an information sheet on fatal fires, maps of fatal fires and much more.