Grant Helps Good Will Teach Kids Fire Prevention

Photo by Evan Brandt

From left, Rusty Layre, a career firefighter for Good Will Fire Company, Jaince K. Clare, an engineering specialist with FM Global insurance, and Kevin Yerger, chief of Good Will Fire Company, hold the recent fire prevention grant award.

Firefighters would rather prevent a fire than fight one.

Now, thanks to a check for $1,940 from FM Global insurance, members of the Good Will Fire Company can help teach young children how to prevent disaster.

Rusty Layre, a career firefighter with the company, applied the grant “after I heard about it from some other firefighters. We want little kids to know a fire is not something that just happens and they can learn how to prevent them.”

The money will pay for “fire prevent packets” for younger children, ages 3 to 7, said Good Will Chief Kevin Yerger. they include coloring books, crayons, book parks, all of which focus on different fire prevention and fire safety lessons, like conducting escape drills and not playing with matches, lighters or stoves.

“At FM Gobal, we strongly believe in the majority of property damage is preventable, not inevitable,” Michael Spaziani, assistant vice president of the company and manager of its fire prevention grant program, said in a press release.

“Far too often, inadequate budgets prevent those organizations working to prevent fire from being as proactive as they would like to be,” Spaziani said. “With additional financial support, grant recipients are actively helping to improve property risk in the communities they serve.”

Visit www.fmglobal.com/fireservice To learn more about FM Global’s Fire Prevention Grant Program, and other resources for the fire service.