With the smiling faces of Hawaii’s keiki on the outside HFD’s new tool for teaching fire safety is actually a whole lot of fun. It’s called the keiki fire safety house.
That is exactly what it is it’s a classroom that is designed for elementary students that targets second graders.
The mobile classroom is designed give children a hands-on learning experience on what to do in the event of a fire.
And not only does the mobile classroom have air conditioning and high tech teaching tools but it can also catch on fire.
With real smoke, ringing fire alarms and even a real looking fire, keiki are taught how to lay low and safely exit a home on fire.
"Our keiki house here reemphasizes that program, we talk about two way out the national message this year is two ways out. So it’s a chance for the kids to hear it again and practise getting out of their homes," said Chief Kenneth Silva, Honolulu Fire Department.
And with a real kitchen on board, the mobile classroom can also teach kids how to put out the most common fire emergency in Hawaii unattended over cooked food.
We talk about how to extinguish a fire that happens while you are cooking we have the prom and the theatrics like help fire and you don not put flour on a grease fire you take a pot lid and put it out," said David Jenkins, HFD Fire Inspector.
The $115,000 high tech mobile class room was purchased through a grant from a local company.
And it’s already being used at schools and community events.
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