Any "teaching tools" used to help children learn should be engaging, interactive, easy to use, and easy to maintain. It’s a bonus for it to be applicable to all ages, usable in a variety of settings, and be easily presented by firefighters, prevention personnel or teachers. When I find a tool that meets all this criteria, price becomes secondary. The Fire-ED “Fully Involved” Teaching Tool certainly meets my expectations and can be used by firefighters to take to the schools and use as part o...

The Fire-ED Interactive System fills a critical gap between those who need training and knowledge, and those who can provide it. I am proud to be a part of this community and collaborate with experts trained in such a wide range of emergency services, business communications, product development and distribution. This combined effort will make a difference in many lives and on so many levels. There is no greater cause than Saving Lives, Injuries & Property loss; and I believe Fire-ED doe...

The Fire-ED Interactive mission is outstanding! Its contribution of providing brand new cutting edge resources to help children learn about prevention and safety, especially “Fire Safety” is extraordinary. I was immediately drawn to this incredible endeavor of Fire-ED when i saw the original Fully Involved Teaching Tool being presented by Tracy Last and Lucia LaRose at the 2015 CFB Esquimalt MET Job Fair I attended for Canadian Forces Veterans.

As a Veteran my Military background gav...

The Victoria Fire Department purchased the original Fire-ED Fully Involved Teaching Tool in 2015 to enrich our public education programming. Upon receipt, we started using the system during our education sessions. In the past three months, we have taught over thirty lessons to approximately one thousand children aged two and a half to seven years old. The program has proven versatile and engages both preschool and elementary school age levels.

The teaching system is well equipped wit...

The collaborative efforts of corporations, associations, and public safety agencies is truly a force that drives successful community involvement initiatives. Fostering strong sense of community is a goal I live for day in and out, especially as an advocate for wellness of our children. Cancer is a battle that small children should not be fighting. To that end it is with all of my strength, endurance, community connections and innate desire to concur cancer that you will find me supporting k...

Training and education involving fire prevention has been an important focus for my family and my business for  years. As an Adviser for Fire-ED Interactive, I am pleased to be assisting a capable team of subject matter experts in a collective effort to provide prevention education on an ongoing basis to communities that need this as a service. Fire & life safety education support, delivered by qualified individuals and professionals, builds confidence in our young people that can be dra...

Rarely do I get an opportunity to collaborate with my colleagues across the country. So a few years back, in an effort to make that happen, I tried to start a public safety educators group to keep conversations going, share ideas, collaborate on projects, and converse about fire prevention and life safety. Well that group didn’t take off.

When I found out about the Fire-ED Interactive Community I saw what they stand for and quickly realized I don’t have to recreate the wheel but rath...

I wish knowledge and education alone could have prevented my husband’s death, but even the most educated of our society cannot control what is only God’s will. Through the ups & downs and what seems like endless grief, the ones who have a deep and common goal to save what is sacred – lives, somehow find each other, and you know when it's real. It’s a glue in a way; a bond, and the ones who have found it need few words to acknowledge the connection. In this case, I found it in the good pe...

It is such an honor for me to be working so closely with Tracy Last, designer of the remarkable Fire-ED Interactive System, also Founder and Chief Inspiration Officer at Fire-ED. I met Tracy attending one of the Dale Carnegie programs I instruct. Years later Tracy looked me up, we met, became friends and now I have been recruited to the Fire-ED Task Force! I believe wholeheartedly in this mission in teaching kids life safety skills that all kids need to learn in order to be leaders to future...

For years I have formed a strong and deeply rooted inner desire to change the way the fire service brings prevention education into communities around the world. The firefighter community of 100’s of 1000’s is needed to make a movement that leaves a positive impact on society. It has to start somewhere so count me in as one of the first!

My why? I do what I do for kids. My son Brendan is a great kid who I’m proud to say has followed my path to become a firefighter. He and I work toge...