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Summit Fire Department
Public Education
Introducing Squirt and Blaze!
At the Burn Educators Association's 22nd
Annual Educational Characterization
through Clowning and Puppetry camp,  
Blaze and Squirt spent four jam packed
days learning how to reduce through
educational clowning and
characterization the loss of life,
property and injuries caused by fire and
or other emergency situations. This camp
attracts fire departments’ educational
teams from all over the country -  not just
from here in Arizona. They had the
pleasure to meet and learn from Public
Education teams from Texas, Utah, New
Mexico, California, and Colorado to name
just a few.  

The Pub Ed team is excited to help them
build and grow a great new program and
community resource for public education.
While at the Bullhead City camp, they
learned a lot about things that have
worked and not worked for other
departments concerning their clown
programs and what values to stay true to.
For example, as said on the Life and Fire
Safety website:

We are life and fire safety educators first,
clowns, characters, and puppeteers
second.

We will maintain our educational
objective by not doing birthday parties or
other events that are for entertainment
only; nor shall we use live fire or any
other life threatening behavior that
contradicts our educational goals and
values.

Please take a few minutes to take a look at
the photos we have attached of Squirt
and Blaze. Our photos were also recently
in  a newsletter  from one of the clowning
instructors from the bullhead camp.   We
are still developing our characters and
what direction this program will be
taking but Blaze and Squirt will be
Spending time at the Home Show in March
and the Summit Car Show in June passing on
Life and Fire Safety messages to the
community. We will be sure and keep you
posted as other shows and dates come up.

Thanks for you Time
Blaze ;o) and Squirt