KIDS LEARN TO PROTECT AND SAVE LIVES
AT THE CHILDREN’S FIRE SAFETY FESTIVAL

Representatives from Miami-Dade County, Miami, Miami Beach, Coral Gables, Hialeah, Key Biscayne and Homestead Air Reserve Base fire rescue departments; Doris Braddy, R.N., B.S.N., burn nurse educator at the UM/JM Burn Center; students from Miami-Dade public and private schools.

Last year, dozens of children were treated for burn injuries at the UM/Jackson Burn Center.  To teach children how to avoid getting burned, the center and local firefighters will host 1,800 kindergarten through third-grade students from Miami-Dade public and private schools at the annual Children’s Fire Safety festival. The program is a collaboration between the UM/JM Burn Center and various fire departments across Miami-Dade County.
  
By participating in five interactive learning-stations, children will have the opportunity to “Learn Not to Burn.” Fire personnel  will offer lessons on: stop, drop and roll; kitchen and bath safety; home fire drill planning; crawling to keep low under smoke; escape planning for windows and doors with bars; matches and lighter safety; and accessing the 9-1-1 emergency system. More than 70,000 students have received this training since this annual event began 27 years ago.

The UM/JM Burn Center, located in the Ryder Trauma Center at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center, is one of the leading burn treatment facilities in the nation and the only verified  center in South Florida. Hundreds of patients – some from the Caribbean and Latin America – are seen each year at the burn center because of the highly specialized care offered by the doctors and nurses.

February

19, 2014, 10:00 a.m.- 12:00 p.m.

Fire Fighters Memorial Building
8000 N.W. 21st St.
Doral, FL33122

Parking available on site