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The Brigham Young University-Idaho Safety
Office will promote fire safety and prevention among students in
correlation with National Fire Prevention Week, October 9-16.
As part of the week’s events, the Safety Office will be
instructing the students in the basics of fire safety at a
presentation table placed in front of the bookstore in the
Manwaring Center. At the end of the week, a mock dorm room,
which was constructed by the Safety Office, will be set on fire
as part of a live burn. The mock dorm room will be placed in the
traffic circle west of the Taylor Quad on Wednesday, October 12
and the live burn will occur on Friday, October 14 at 9:50 a.m.
The local fire department will be present to extinguish the
fire.
The live burn is meant to serve as a demonstration of the
devastation a fire can cause. It will be recorded on video by
the video production department for further use.
“The Safety Office’s purposes in participating in the nationwide
campaign of Fire Prevention week is to inform the student
population that the dangers of fire are real and can strike at
any time. Hundreds of people die every year because they are not
prepared or they didn’t have a fire extinguisher or the smoke
detector was disabled,” Kyle Williams, a BYU-Idaho Fire
Protection Officer, said. “Our goal is to inform people of the
dangers and that they can take action for themselves, and when
they leave BYU-Idaho they leave safer and better then when they
came.”
Additional information about the fire prevention week campaign
can be at
http://www.firesafety.gov/directory/at-risk/college.shtm or
http://www.nfpa.org/index.asp?cookie%5Ftest=1. |