Liberty kindergartners learn to 'stop, drop & roll'

LIBERTY

She had a tough time keeping her plastic fire helmet on her head because it didn’t quite fit.

Her face scrunched in frustration, Danashia Monique Rivers, 6, a kindergartner at E.J. Blott Elementary School, tried pounding it down to keep it on. It bounced backed up.

She tried tugging it down. That didn’t work. So she just took it off and stood, hatless, with her classmates as they listened to Liberty Fire Captain Bob Catchpole review what to do when there’s a fire.

Standing there, in front of that huge fire truck behind the school Friday morning while firefighters and paramedics talked about fire safety, their equipment and how it worked, Danashia didn’t need any hat as proof she knows her stuff.

“Tell me what you learned this week in school about fire safety,” Catchpole asked the group.

“Stop, drop and roll!” said her classmate Russell Prisby.

“They should roll!” Danashia said at exactly the same time.

The school’s five kindergarten classes had been hard at work getting ready for the fire department’s visit, which was sponsored by the Gibson Insurance Agency in observance of October’s being Fire Prevention Month.

Read more of the kids' take on the safety lesson in Saturday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.