A COMPLETE GUIDE TO BUILDING AND USING A DRAMATIC LIVE FIRE DEMONSTRATION IN YOUR COMMUNITY
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This fact-based fire safety educational tool is a highly effective way to educate the public showing how normal, everyday combustible material found in every household can cause a major fire, injury, or death. More importantly, it shows how a quick-response fire sprinkler can greatly reduce such danger. With this demonstration, your focus will be to educate your audience on:
- quick-response fire sprinkler technology
- the definition and dangers of flashover
- fire department response timeline
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Your target audience for a fire sprinkler and burn demo is everybody! Officials you may want to invite
include:
• Mayor or Town Manager
• State Senator or Representative from your district
• Building Official
• Planner
• Building Inspector
The demonstration kit will guide you through a step-by-step process on how to build your sprinkler/burn demo unit, and will bring you all the way through the clean-up process following your presentation. It will show you how to conduct your demonstration to reach-out to your audience most effectively. Also included are suggestions for gaining sponsors to seek financial contributions for a cost-effective demonstration and ideas for sponsor recognition to show your appreciation.
To get started, you can download your copy here
The HFSC Fire and Sprinkler Burn Demonstration Kit is property of Home Fire Sprinkler Coalition, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) charitable organization and the leading resource for independent, noncommercial information about residential fire sprinklers. HFSC was formed in 1996 in response to the tremendous need to inform the public about the life-saving value of home fire sprinkler protecton.
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