*****PRESS RELEASE*****
CITY OF BRENTWOOD
FIRE AND RESCUE
From: Fire Chief Brian Goss
Date: January 31, 2013
Subject: Press Release: Lookout
for Flat Firefighter Sam!
Brentwood Announces Flat
Firefighter Contest, CPR Fridays in February, and QR Codes
Flat Stanley, make way for Flat
Firefighter Sam! Brentwood residents
will soon notice a visitor in a few public places around town. In an effort to increase public awareness
about a variety of safety related issues, Flat Firefighters will appear holding
safety messages. The firefighters will
enable the Brentwood Fire & Rescue Department to present a number of
seasonal messages in an attention grabbing way.
To kick off the Flat Firefighter
project, the department is announcing a new contest. The first person (young, 50 forward, or somewhere in-between) to
correctly identify the location of every Flat Firefighter will win a ride on
board a fire truck. When you find all
five (5) of the Flat Firefighters send the list of locations, along with your
contact information to pratherr@brentwood-tn.org. Fire department members and their families
are not eligible to participate and have been pinky sworn to secrecy.
Along with the introduction of
the flat firefighters, scan codes called QRs will be introduced. The codes can be scanned by smart phones or
tablets and are a new way to present important information and safety messages
to the public. You will soon see these
codes appearing on department vehicles and literature.
The first public education effort
to employ this new technology is the Free Friday February CPR courses. CPR is an essential skill that every adult
should know, and now it is easy to receive training.
Recently the Brentwood Fire and
Rescue Department has experienced a dramatic increase in the number of people
that are surviving cardiac arrests. This
is due to three primary factors; new hypothermic protocols, increased public
access to Automatic Electronic Defibrillators (AED’s), and initiation of
bystander CPR. With the help of
citizens, the department hopes to see this trend continue.
CPR is not difficult or time consuming to learn. In the month of
February, the Brentwood Fire Department is offering free CPR classes on Fridays
to the public at the Brentwood Library starting at 6:30 p.m. Each class lasts
approximately 2 ½ hours and offers training on infant, child, and adult CPR.
For adults, participants will be taught both ‘traditional’ and hands only CPR.
Only one Friday is required to learn
these lifesaving skills. For more information or to sign up, contact
firefighter Scott Barnes at barness@brentwood-tn.org
or call 371-2200 ext. 4523.
If you have a safety related
question, or know of an important safety issue that you would like to be
featured, please contact Firefighter Katherine Williams at williamsk@brentwood-tn.org.
