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Fall Harvest Party

and

Open House

Held

October 27, 2007

Thanks to

All Who Attended

and to

the

Ladies Auxiliary

for making

this event

a big

success..

The Seneca Fire Protection District and the Seneca Fire District Ladies Auxiliary hosted a open house / fall harvest party at the Racine Station 1. The Ladies Auxiliary provided chili and desert to all that attended.

Area residence began to arrive at the fire station at 4:00 PM to enjoy the afternoon festivities. Children of all ages dressed in costumes enjoyed several games in which the Ladies Auxiliary offered. Local business donated candy and prizes which were given to the winners of the games.

Around 4:30 the crowd went outside to see to watch as fire fighters demonstrated Stop-Drop-And Roll. Fire fighters explained that if you were on fire the worst thing you can do is run. By running the fire spreads. The best thing you can do is STOP-DROP-AND ROLL. Once the technique was shown the fire fighters brought out a red blanket to represent fire. The blanket was place on a bystanders back and they immediately stop-dropped-and rolled the fire out.

Also the children got a first hand experience of what a fire fighter looks and sounds like when he or she is in full protective clothing and has a self contained breathing apparatus strapped to his back. This allowed the children see and hear the fire fighter so they would not be scared of them in an emergency situation. Common response of the children was they sound wired.
Fire fighters went on to explain several aspects of fire fighting equipment including the fire gear that they wear. The children were told about the self contained breathing apparatus (Scott Pack), Fire fighters explain the tank had air in it. It is used by fire fighters so they can go into a burning house to put the fire out. This lead into talking about how smoke and heat goes to the ceiling and works it's way down to the floor. Therefore if your house is on fire you need to crawl out of the house on the floor because that is where the good air is. Several children and fire fighters practiced crawling.

Once the demonstrations were over the children went back to playing games until around 5:15 PM when the fire fighters demonstrated how they extricate patients out of a wrecked car.

Around 5:30 PM the big red fire truck with lights flashing and a team of fire fighters begin to extricate a patient in a car. As the fire fighters began to work on the doors of the car with the Jaws of Life, fire fighters explained the process.

The crowd watched as the front door was open and the patient was placed on a back board and removed from the car.

The next part of the demonstration was removing the roof of the car. Fire fighters cut the post between the doors, at the windshield and at the back glass. Then the firefighter removed the roof of the car.

In all the the Open House was a big success with around 85 to 90 people attended.

The Seneca District Fire Department would like to thank all those who attended and the Seneca District Ladies Auxiliary for all the hard work they did to make this event so successful.