Have you heard about Fire is Everyone’s Fight™?

Fire is Everyone’s Fight™ is a national initiative to unite the fire service, life safety organizations and professionals in an effort to reduce home fire injuries, deaths and property loss by changing how people think about fire and fire prevention. Partnerships are critical to deliver accurate and consistent safety messages to the community. We invite fire departments, life safety organizations and fire and life safety professionals to partner with us. Once you join, use the Fire Is Everyone’s Fight graphic and tagline on your existing and new materials. Join the fight. To help you spread the word, we have created a community outreach guide. There are dozens of ways you can use Fire Is Everyone’s Fight to help teach people in your city or town to be safer. Our community outreach guide shares just a few ideas to help you get started. It offers suggestions for engaging people in the community. This guide will help you: ·       Integrate Fire Is Everyone’s Fight content into your existing media and community outreach programs.  Reach out to organizations to arrange speaking opportunities.  Use social media to get the word out about fire safety and prevention.  Know what to say and how to say it simply and effectively.  Put together an event that attracts the audience you want to inform.  Create opportunities to get the word out. We have also created PowerPoint slides to cover the essential home fire safety information for any community presentation. In addition, there are audience-specific slides for: Caregivers of babies and toddlers. Older adults. Caregivers of older adults. Finally, check out the fire prevention and safety digital media library The old adage is true: “A picture’s worth a thousand words.” Showing a prevention tip, like practicing a fire escape plan, is much more effective than just talking about it. The photos, social media images and videos on this page are free for you to use in your materials. They show fire-safe behaviors and fire prevention best practices, and include ideas for accompanying safety tips. Social media toolkits Key messages, cards, hashtags and videos for your social channels. Pictographs Pictographs can help overcome literacy barriers by communicating fire safety messages with pictures. Photos Free, high resolution public domain photos for your use. Video footage Broadcast quality, high definition b-roll footage showing smoke alarm safety demonstrations with diverse populations. Audio PSAs Broadcast quality fire safety public service announcements. If you would like more information about Fire is Everyone’s Fight, you can contact Teresa Neal at 301-447-1024 or FEMA-FireisEveryonesFight@fema.dhs.gov