SCFSEA Gets a Proclamation
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Happy Fire Prevention Month!
Stony Brook Safety Day Wednesday October 19th 10am-3pm any help is appreciated. Please contact the president.
The October meeting will be:
Date: Friday October 28th
Location: Smithtown Fire Department 100 Elm Ave, Smithtown, NY 11787
August Meeting
Date: August 18th, 2022
Time: Dinner 7pm / Meeting to follow 8pm
Address: 25 Gibbs Pond Rd, Nesconset, NY 11767
March Meeting
The March meeting will be Friday March 25th
Location: Brookhaven Main Fire House 2486 Montauk Hwy, Brookhaven, NY 11719
Time: Dinner is 7pm Meeting 8pm
What is Next With the Educators
Hello and Good Day….
There is a lot that is going on with the Suffolk County Fire Safety Educators…
- Next meeting for March will TBA.
- Please follow below for all new and exciting facebook posts.
Social Media Toolkit Wildfire and Outdoor Fire Safety from FEMA
How to use this toolkit
The toolkit contains content that you can share on Twitter, Facebook and other social media channels to increase awareness about wildfire and outdoor fire safety. You can copy this content or customize it to reach your audience.
Messages to share
Put these fire safety messages into your own words when talking to people about wildfire and outdoor fire safety on social media. Each year wildfire burns millions of acres of land.
Wildfire safety
- Create a safety zone of up to 100 feet around your home. Remove pine needles and dry leaves from around your home. Keep woodpiles at least 30 feet from your home.
- Know your community’s local evacuation plan. Plan ahead by practicing two ways out of your neighborhood. You should know the evacuation route and plan a place where you will go.
- If you are told to evacuate, do so immediately. If you wait until the last minute, the roads may have heavy traffic. Blowing embers and debris from the fire may make it hard to see.
- Stay informed. Listen to the TV/radio broadcasts for current weather and emergency instructions. Sign up to receive local emergency alerts and warnings on both your home phone and cellphone.
- Make sure everyone in your family knows your meeting place ahead of time. Let your family and friends who do not live in your area know your meeting place.
- Keep your car fueled and keep an emergency supply bag in your car. Back your car into the garage or park it in an open space facing the direction of escape.
Outdoor fire safety
- Move the grill away from siding, decking, and other things that can catch fire.
- Stay with the grill the entire time you’re cooking.
- Use long-handled barbecue tools when cooking on the grill.
- Use a metal screen over wood-burning fires to keep sparks from floating out.
- Turn off or put out fires before you leave the backyard.
- Build campfires at least 15 feet away from tent walls, shrubs or other things that burn.
- The best way to stay safe from fireworks is to not use them.
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Hashtags
- #SummerFireSafety
- #FireworksSafety
- #WildfireSafety
- #FireSafetyTip
- #GrillingFireSafety
- #OutdoorFireSafety
Social cards
Use the cards and animations below by themselves or include supporting content with them to reinforce their messages.
Video
Summer Safety Tips (1:33 minutes)
Grilling Fire Safety (30 seconds)
Grilling Fire Safety (55 seconds)
More outreach materials
Visit our Outreach page for links to customizable handouts that you can recommend to community organizations that want to promote fire safety.
All information came from: https://www.usfa.fema.gov/prevention/outreach/media/social_toolkits/toolkit_outdoor.html
Fire Is Everyone’s Fight
Fire is Everyone’s Fight® is a national initiative to unite the fire service, life safety organizations and professionals in an effort to reduce home fire injuries, deaths and property loss by changing how people think about fire and fire prevention.
Partner with us
USFA recognizes partnerships as a critical means of delivering accurate and consistent safety messages to the community. We invite fire departments, life safety organizations and fire and life safety professionals to partner on this important initiative. Once you join, we ask you to use the Fire Is Everyone’s Fight graphic and tagline on your existing and new materials.
Join the fight
To find out how you or your organization can support Fire is Everyone’s Fight, please contact Teresa Neal at 301-447-1024 or FEMA-FireisEveryonesFight@fema.dhs.gov
Ways you can use the FIEF logo and our outreach materials
Check out how fire departments and fire service organizations are using the FIEF logo and public service announcements (PSAs) to help change how people think about fire and fire prevention.
If you would like to use the Fire is Everyone’s Fight logo on materials you create
The Fire is Everyone’s Fight® logo is trademarked so we require that you complete a simple registration form to use it. Once you do, you’ll have access to various versions of the logo optimized for websites and print materials.
Register to use the logo on materials you create
January Meeting
January’s Meeting Scheduled for Friday January 22nd at 7pm, will be held via Zoom. More info to follow in future communications.
Info on staying healthy this winter
| This Year, It’s More Important Than Ever to Get Your Flu Shot |
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October Meeting
Please click on full post for directions.
Location: Brookhaven Volunteer Fire Fighters Museum
725 NY-25, Ridge, NY 11961
Date: Friday October 23rd
Time: 7pm Dinner & Meeting to follow 8pm
Important Rules to follow:
- Masks are to be worn
- Social Distancing Guidelines (6 ft apart)