Take A Virtual Tour Of The Franklin Fire Department’s Family Safety House

Press release from the City of Franklin:

September 17, 2020

Franklin, TN – The Franklin Fire Department won’t be taking their Family Safety House educational trailer to schools this year due to COVID-19. Instead, a virtual tour is available HERE.

For the past 15 years, the Family Safety House has been a Franklin tradition, serving as a mobile classroom where firefighters teach children fire safety and survival skills each fall. The specially-designed trailer allows students to experience a simulated fire in a home-like setting so they know what to do if a real one breaks out.

Franklin Fire and Life Safety Educator Jamie Melton said, “While we’re disappointed we won’t be able to present the Family Safety House program in person this year, we encourage students and families to take a look at our virtual option.” She said the virtual tour features five video lessons, which were filmed at Liberty Elementary and Winstead Elementary in 2017. She said, “The lessons are geared toward six and seven year old children, but they are good safety reminders for the entire family.”

The Family Safety House lessons include:

• Outside Meeting Place
• Hot, not hot, sometimes hot
• How and when to call 911
• Smoke alarms
• Know two ways out of every room

Since 2005, more than 15,000 children have toured the Family Safety House on-site at their Franklin-area elementary schools. Learn more at www.franklintn.gov/FamilySafet....

This press release was produced by the City of Franklin. The views expressed here are the author’s own.