LibGuides: Fire Safety Education in Libraries: Resources

US Fire Administration Resources

The US Fire Administration has a library of fire prevention and public safety materials, lesson plans, and ready to use programs. They're a great resource for putting together your own program, or just using their program straight from the site.

Pictograph courtesy of USFA.

Fire Prevention and Safety Digital Media Library
This library of digital media has pictographs, photos, videos, and audio files ready to use in outreach, programming, or social media surrounding that programming. Pictographs are particularly useful for younger children or anyone with low literacy skills.
Fire Prevention and Public Education Exchange
The Fire Prevention and Public Education Exchange has programs on a variety of topics from fire departments and other organizations around the country. They are free to use.
Lesson Plans
The USFA has a catalog of lesson plans broken down by appropriate grade level. These are available to download.
Ready-to-use Educational Fire Safety Programs and Presentations
These programs are available free from the USFA and can be used in their entirety or tailored to your specific community. They cover a broad range of age groups.
Keeping Kids Safe From Fire
These materials are specifically designed with children in mind, including fire safety education for parents.

National Fire Protection Association Resources

The National Fire Prevention Association creates fire codes and is an authority on fire safety. They have a variety of resources available for public outreach and education about fire safety. NFPA also sponsors National Fire Prevention Week in October every year, and has a specific tool for schools called Sparky the Fire Dog. Many of their materials are also available in languages other than English to better serve your community.

NFPA Kids YouTube Channel
NFPA Kids has age appropriate videos for children about fire safety. These can be shared as part of preparation for a program or during it.
Public Education
Here NFPA provides lesson plans, teaching tools, and other safety education materials for the public. These include risk information specific to rural and urban environments.
Remembering When
Remembering When is a fire and fall safety program for older adults designed by NFPA. It's free to download and use in your community.
Safety Tip Sheets in Other Languages
These tip sheets are available in multiple languages so everyone in your community can stay safe.
Fire Prevention Week and Fire Safety Education Materials
These materials have a cost but if your library or fire department have a programming/outreach budget, materials go a long way to helping attendees remember what they've been taught.
Fire Prevention Week
The NFPA Fire Prevention Week site is a great starting point full of videos, games, and other materials to create fire prevention week programming.

Other Resources

How your department can mark Fire Prevention Week | Fire Rescue 1
This article from Fire Rescue 1 covers ways that your department can connect with your community around fire prevention week in October.
Fire Safety | National Safety Council
The National Safety Council has collected a variety of tips and information important to fire safety. Many of them would be useful to incorporate in your programming.
12 holiday safety tips from the Electrical Safety Foundation International
Here Fire Rescue 1 presents holiday safety tips from the Electrical Safety Foundation International. These would be great to incorporate into a fire safety program.
Fire Safety Educational Materials | National Fire Safety Council
These materials, created by the National Fire Safety Council, are divided by age group and many are free to download.
Fire Safety Handouts, Outreach Materials, and Resource Links | Vermont Department of Public Safety
The Vermont Department of Public Safety has collected materials from a variety of sources that are ready to use and integrate into your programming.