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Neighbors | Abby Slanker.Cardinal Joint Fire District firefighter/EMT Jonathan Hutchison explained the fire truck’s equipment to the Hilltop Elementary School third-grade students and showed them the tools firefighters use as a part of Fire Safety Week.
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Neighbors | Abby Slanker.A Hilltop Elementary School third-grade student got a thrill of a lifetime as he climbed into the cab of a Cardinal Joint Fire District fire truck as firefighter/paramedic John Corman looked on.
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Neighbors | Abby Slanker.Hilltop Elementary School third-grade students had the chance to explore the Cardinal Joint Fire District’s inflatable Fire Safety House as a part of Fire Safety Week.
By ABBY SLANKER
To celebrate Fire Safety Week, students at Hilltop Elementary School received a special visit from members of the Cardinal Joint Fire District on Oct. 10.
The firemen educated the students about fire safety and presented fire safety tips to students by performing a Fire Safety Quiz Show for each grade level.
A group of four students were chosen from each class and Deputy Chief Matt Rarick asked the four teams questions ‘game show style’ and the students had to buzz in first to answer the questions.
Rarick asked the students such questions as, “After leaving your house because of a fire, where do you go?” and “When you hear the smoke detector beep, what should you do?”
After five rounds of questions, with each round getting a little harder, a winning class was declared, which received a special prize of a red squishy Fire Safety Week ball. All other students received helmets, stickers and coloring books compliments of the fire department.
After the Fire Safety Quiz Show, the firefighters invited the children outside to check out the inflatable Fire Safety House and fire truck parked in back of the school.
The students were able to explore the Fire Safety House and practiced crawling on the ground until they could exit the house safely.
Firefighter/EMT Jonathan Hutchison explained the fire truck’s equipment to the students and showed them the tools firefighters use when fighting fires. Firefighter/paramedic John Corman gave the students a chance to sit in the cab of the fire truck.
The Cardinal Joint Fire District visited C.H. Campbell Elementary School to present their Fire Safety Week program on Oct. 11.