Explain your experience of how you, specifically, determined the neighborhood with the highest fire risk in your community.
Fire Risk Assessment
Before you begin your presentation, you will need to conduct a community risk assessment by determining the neighborhood with the highest fire risk in your area. You can do this by interviewing senior fire department staff in your area, reviewing report data obtained from your local fire department, and/or using local geographic information system (GIS) fire location maps, if applicable.
To create your ten-slide presentation follow the outline below:
- Create a title slide.
- Create a graphic with the five-step process steps written out.
- Identify how to assess fire risks in your community.
- Explain your experience of how you, specifically, determined the neighborhood with the highest fire risk in your community.
- Explain how you would develop community partnerships.
- Provide your intervention strategy for the busiest neighborhood’s identified risk(s).
- Explain how you would implement your intervention strategy.
- Explain the benefits of evaluating the results of your intervention strategy.
- Create a conclusion slide.
- Create a reference slide.
For this presentation, you can utilize bullets, lists, charts, tables, paragraphs, images, or any other means you feel will get your points across.
Step 1: To start, imagine your boss has come to you as the new fire and life safety educator with a problem your community has faced too frequently. The boss says that there have been three fire fatalities in your community and five close calls where people barely escaped the burning structure in the last year. You will have access to all local fire department report data, census data, and GIS data. The problem really stems from the fact that the organization has not identified a means to decrease the number of missing and nonoperating smoke alarms in the community. Step 2: In this step you should work on developing partnerships with other community organizations. One of the most influential organizations related to smoke alarms is the American Red Cross, with access to programs to install working smoke alarms in residences free of charge. Other organizations may include small businesses that can donate monetarily to the cause of installing free smoke alarms to those who need them. Step 3: Here you will work on finding the areas of the community that are most at risk. Where have the most fires been? Where have the fatalities and close calls been? Is there a trend? Where are the highest population densities? You will obtain all of this information by reviewing data, talking with fire department personnel, and seeking input from community members. Step 4: This is the “action” or step where work is done to initiate the program you develop. It may include posting social media information, passing out information at community events and parades, and stressing the importance of having working smoke alarms annually at school fire prevention week activities. One of the most impactful ways to ensure working smoke alarms in residences is to go door-to-door offering free smoke alarm installation. Step 5: In the final step you continue to collect data. Have fatalities and injuries gone down since the implementation of your program? How many smoke alarms have been installed? What information sharing method was recognized by the most residents? Now, you have to modify what you have been doing if the data shows a need. Ideally, the program is successful and more effort and an expansion of the program is all that is needed.
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I live in Columbia SC, South Carolina
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