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About the AwardFire is Everyone’s Fight™ is designed to unite the fire service and many others in a collaborative effort to reduce home fire injuries, deaths and property loss. It invites fire departments, safety advocates, community groups, schools and others to rally behind a common and compelling theme. USFA and its partners will communicate and reinforce key lessons across many proven fire safety and prevention initiatives and programs.
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SAFEOKLAHOMA is a smoke alarm installation and education project for people in rural areas with low population density. Three high risk counties in Oklahoma were identified for this project. The project was funded by a 2008 Fire Prevention and Safety, Assistance to Firefighters Grant in partnership with the Oklahoma Fire Chiefs Association / Oklahoma State Firefighters Association.
Local installer teams were identified and trained to install state of the art smoke alarm equipment in the homes of the local residents and provided customized home fire safety educational messages. After 20 installations the first documented “save” was reported. Currently there have been 5 reported saves.
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How To Be Fire Safe, is a home fire safety program for people with cognitive disabilities and is designed specifically for adults with mild to moderate mental retardation who live independently, or live with family and spend time at home alone. The development of the program has been supported by U.S. Fire Administration, Fire Prevention and Safety Grants. Developed by a partnership between Seeds Educational Services, Inc. (San Diego, CA) and FPP/OSU, this educational program to date has three parts.
OverviewHome Safety Literacy Projectwas developed in 2003-2004 by Fire Protection Publications in partnership with the Home Safety Council and ProLiteracy Worldwide. Financial support was provided by a Fire Prevention and Safety Grant from the U.S. Fire Administration.
This award winning project provides excellent adult literacy instructional materials with fire and life safety as the topic. These materials have since been expanded to include a complete set of adult teaching tools on disaster preparation and poison prevention materials as well.
- An Early Childhood Education Curriculum
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FPP projects focusing on firefighter and emergency responder occupational safety and health and alternatives for fire department funding:
Oklahoma State University, home of Fire Protection Publications, is Oklahoma’s flagship land grant institution. Land grant universities have a three-fold mission: education, research, and outreach. FPP is an outreach program of the College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology, boasting direct impact and community presence throughout North America and the world through their vast production of quality educational materials for the fire and emergency services.
OverviewIn recent years, FPP has also become a major hub in the University’s research mission, as well. Under the direction of FPP Assistant Director Nancy Trench, FPP established a Research Department and has received millions of dollars in funding to research and find solutions to the most pressing fire and life safety problems. This includes research in public fire education, firefighter safety, educational methods, and leadership and management issues. These projects are used for the benefit of the fire service community, as well as, focusing on the needs of the public.
Fire Protection Publications is a department of the College of Engineering, Architecture, and Technology at Oklahoma State University. IFSTA/FPP is located on the OSU campus in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
Through the years, customers and fire service personnel who have followed the progress of our operation have noticed that at any given time it may be referred to by one of two names: Fire Protection Publications or the International Fire Service Training Association. To some, it may seem that these names can be used interchangeably. To others it is just plain confusing. This will help you understand these two different organizations and their relationship.
