Community Education:

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Palm Beach County Fire Rescue
Community Education Who Are We and What Do We
Do? Presented by Gerri Penney, M.Ed. Community
Education Coordinator
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Goal
To educate the citizens of Palm Beach County in
taking steps to prevent fires and unintentional
injuries and in being prepared to handle
emergencies should they arise, thus saving lives
and property.
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What do we do?

• Life Safety presentations to schools,
  businesses, home owners associations, community
  and civic groups, etc.
• In-services for teachers, community partners,
  institute for active aging, other county
  departments, etc.

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Presentations

• 27 regular topics such as
• CPR, Fire drills, Fire extinguishers First Aid,
  Career days, Bike safety, etc.

Presentations about any fire safety or injury
prevention topic can be customized for your group
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In-Services

• Groups of teachers, employees, health care
  workers, maintenance staff can request specific
  in-services for their particular need.
• In many cases CEUs can be provided or
  certification to meet OSHA or JCAHO requirements

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What do we do?

• Juvenile firesetter educational intervention
  programs with families, liaising with county wide
  law enforcement agencies and fire departments
• Mentoring other fire departments in comprehensive
  injury prevention programs such as Risk Watch

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Juvenile Firesetter Educational Intervention
2nd Thursday and 4th Tuesday 630 P.M. 800
P.M. HQ - Room 202
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Risk Watch addresses the eight risk areas that
kill the greatest number of kids
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Risk Watch
Teaches injury prevention behaviors from
preschool through grade eight
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What do we do?

• Direct service of intervention devices such as
  smoke alarms in cooperation with operations and
  volunteers
• Targeting at-risk populations such as seniors
  with Vial of Life and Who Do I Call to Get the
  Help I Need?

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Installation of Smoke Alarms
Firefighters and Volunteers install free smoke
alarms and perform complimentary home safety
surveys.
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Vial of Life

• Homeowners are given kits to fill out and place
  on their fridge door
• These forms give paramedics information on your
  medical history
• In an emergency, we know how to treat you and can
  take this info with us, to the hospital

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Who Do I Call...
9-1-1 Know the emergency number for Fire,
Police and Medical help 2-1-1 Know the
non- emergency number for help with
community resources
Sponsored By

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Community Education Staff
Call usWere happy to help you.
North County David Collado 616-7051 Central
County Doris Joyner 616-7050 South County Bob
Smallacombe 616-7049 Risk Watch Coord. Alicia
Kula, M.S. 616-7074 Secretary Linda DeLeo
616-7033 Community Education Coordinator Gerri
Penney, M.Ed. 616-7024 (Cell 723-3886)