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Show HILLTOP TIMES TIMES October 8, 2009 LEE ANNE HENSLEY/Hilltop Times Above, Sarah Jolley (far right), a family child care provider at Hill Air Force Base, and Denise Jenkins, 75th Force Support Squadron Family Child Care trainer, hold small children while Shelby Patterson, 4, watches "Rusty," a remote-controlled, voiced fire fighter display operated by Christopher Wiikins, 775th Civil Engineering Squadron fire inspector, as part of a fire prevention display set up in the Youth Center gymnasium. At right, two children from a Hill AFB family child care home take a close up took at a fire engine manned by the firefighters from the 775th CES in the Youth Center parking lot. Fire Prevention Week ignites this week at Hill AFB BY LEE ANNE HENSLEY Hilltop Times staff | he firefighters of the 775th Civil Engineering Squadron hosted a fire prevention display at the Youth Center on Oct. 6 during the morning ttours for Hill Air Force Base family child care groups and returned later in the afternoon for the older crowd of school age children. The display was one of many set up at child care centers and elementary schools throughout the week of Oct. 4-10 in recognition of Fire Prevention Week. ;• To generate awareness of this year's Fire Prevention Week theme, "Stay fire smart — Don't get burned," the 775th CES hosted a poster and essay contest for elementary school-aged children in addition to providing demonstrations and displays at various children's centers and schools around Hill AFB. The winners?of the essay and poster contest will be announced today and those winners will participate in tomorrow's Firefighter for a Day activity. This event allows the children to have a hands-on learning experience as they engage in firefighting scenarios simulated by the 775th GES firefighters at Fire Station No. 1. Such activities Qan include watching firefighters simulate an egression Rescue from an F-16 Fighting Falcon near the fiightline, said Jeff Beck, 775th CES Fire Protection specialist. ;: During Tuesday's fire prevention display activity at tjie Youth Center, children toured a fire engine and had a; chance to ask the firefighters who manned the engine Questions about the engine and its many gadgets. The children were then taken to a trailer that contained staged rooms of a home, where they learned various tips for preventing fires within each room. '•'. Near the bedroom portion of the trailer, the door had been retrofitted with a heater to simulate what a door would feel like if a fire burned on the other side of it and a standard window was installed in one wall to allow children to practice escaping from it if a fire prevented their escape from the doorway. ;: The trailer was also retrofitted with a smoke machine and smoke detectors to allow children to practice the low-crawl escape method. • However, for Nicole Mustain's children enrolled in tier family child care, they were too young to be able to experience the smoke-filled room simulation, but they were still able to practice the egress method of crawling on their hands and knees. ;: "We practice fire drills every month in my home," Mustain said. j; "Fire drills are something we have to practice every rijonth in family child care," said Denise Jenkins, 75th Force Support Squadron Family Child Care trainer. ?- Jenkins notified all family child care providers at Fiill Air Force Base about Tuesday's event to engage the childrenand providers in fun and educational fire prevention activities. rj*:<>^±^r mtf^WWr^ HEALTHY SMILE CENTER Above, Al Payne, 775th CES fire inspector, assists Emily Fields, 2, while she practices escaping out of a window in the event of a home fire, while Shelby Patterson, 4, waits her turn in the fire prevention display trailer. 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