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Introducing Squirt and Blaze!

The Public Education team would like to
introduce to you Squirt and  Blaze the
Public Education Clowns! Our two newest
members of the Summit Fire Family. As many
of you know Squirt and Blaze recently
spent some time in Bullhead City at the
Arizona Fire and 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
have attached that for you to look at as
well. 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