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 Brunswick,
Ga. – Through Glynn County Fire Department’s extensive fire
safety education program, it is hoped that lives may be saved
and property prevented from being lost.
Many believe that The Glynn County Fire Department has
the biggest fire prevention program in the State of Georgia.
Fire prevention week began Sunday, October 6, and
continued through Saturday, October 12 with hundreds of people
visiting the fire department’s store in Colonial Mall.
The
store contains fire safety information and firefighting
memorabilia from firefighters’ personal collections. Each year the Mall allows firefighters to open their own
store and reach citizens from all over South Georgia. The “Glynn County Fire Department Pride” translates into
a week of activities, shows, demonstrations, skits, and other
activities with fire prevention themes.
Since
1993 the local Mall has allowed the Fire Department Store to
open with “rent free” status.
If anyone is confused as to the location of the Store
then they have no further to look than that of the
department’s 1952 antique fire truck which is parked outside
the store. Just a
little further is the stage where many of the fire department
education skits are preformed.
The skits include members of the audience who in turn get
fire prevention tee shirts just for participating.
The department gets the support of sponsors from all over
the community who help with the weeklong activities.
 This
year the Glynn County Volunteers demonstrated the use of the
fire apparatus in a scenario outside the mall in the parking lot
at timed intervals featuring water supply usage.
Aerial water supply demonstrations were a hit with the
audience. Lines of
people and their children showed up to learn about the modern
equipment, which the department uses.
“Flame”, Glynn County’s Fire Dog roamed the mall as
well as the popular “Freddie The Fire Truck” who talked with
the children and introduced firefighters to the shoppers.
The
store itself was really neat. Greg Driggers, a county firefighter and a talented artist,
painted a mural which depicted tow fire trucks, one from the
turn-of-the century, and the other from the 1970s, along side
one of the most recognizable symbols of fire fighting in
America: a Dalmatian.
To top it off the store gave away free smoke detectors
to Glynn County residents and offered free blood pressure
checks. Is the
Glynn County Program a success?
We will know when fire fatalities are reduced and
property saved.
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