Adopt A Hydrant!
ICE4SAFETY has been promoting this great idea as a community service idea and providing useful tools (free of course) since 2009.
ICE4SAFETY will roll out a series of Fire Safety oriented ICE Symbols your community can use to advance fire safety awareness and that can easily become an integral part of any community preparedness program! Fire Safety Week is almost here.
Here’s yet another in a series of “community ready” Fire Safety ICE Symbols that can be adapted to a variety of not for profit public service uses….
- ICE4SAFETY’s Mini and Maxi Hydrant©
Meet Mini and Maxi Hydrant© the mascots of ICE4SAFETY’s Winter Fire Safety Program effort. Need some for your ICE Adopt a Hydrant Program? Just let us know…… We can place your emblem, badge or whatever into these ceramic models to customize them.
We have completed a number of promotional posters and “adoption” forms that can be used by any community to foster such fire safety awareness. We also have some promotional items for departments who wish to promote the program in their communities. We’ll save those for next season.
Winter is no time to hibernate when it comes to preparedness and fire safety especially…while you are out shovelling, snow blowing or plowing, please take a few minutes to remove obstructions (SNOW) around your nearby fire hydrant.
If you live in a fire district with volunteers remember it will take extra time for them to respond to your fire….those 10 minutes will seem like an eternity. Why have them waste even more time shovelling out your hydrant?
Okay here is a hydrant in DEWITT, NEW YORK shoveled out this past Winter (okay, we used a snow blower!) so even a Fat Santa can get around this one ….or a heavily outfitted firefighter. 10 feet of clearance all around so the snow plow won’t block it in. Don’t scrimp here. Teach the kids how to do it.
Suggestions: Town/Village/City could place a family (or families) name on the hydrant that is charged with clearing it out (See Pics) using easily applied label tape or they can implant a locator stake with reflective plate and the names on it…..Recordkeeping is merely keeping a spreadsheet database of names…..community contests or business sponsorship (they can clean out theirs as well) are all possibilities.
We have included an “Adoption Certificate” in our Fire Safety Zipped File so Fire Chiefs or sponsors can issue them to willing participants…..which should be everyone who is healthy enough to shovel. This goes for dry standpipes in rural communities as well.
More Snowstorms Predicted – Wait Until Next Year!
Steve Cannerelli Photo Syracuse Post Standard 1-19-11
