Project to train 25,000 kids on fire safety
THE STAR,
November 11 1999
PENANG : A private company
has embarked on a project to train 25,000 children on fire safety
through the Fire Kids' Club safety workshop to be held nationwide.
Medic Link Sdn Bhd managing director Don
Law said the fun and interactive workshops were designed to educate
children on various aspects of fire safety and prevention.
He said the workshop would prepare them
physically and mentally on the event of fire, adding that the first two
workshops in Kuala Lumpur and Sungai Petani had received great response.
"Children are trained on firefighting
techniques which are vital knowledge in saving their own and other
people's lives," he told a press conference yesterday.
Law said the first workshop in Penang for
children aged from six to 10 years would be held at Island Plaza this
Sunday, from 10am to 1pm.
The event is organized jointly with the
state Education Department and Hotel Equatorial.
Twenty volunteers from the Malaysian
Volunteer Fire & Rescue Association will be flown in from Kuala Lumpur to
conduct the workshop.
Participants will be involved in
fire-rescue demonstration, Stop, Drop and Roll, Learn to Crawl in Smoky
Area and Fireman Drag and Escape, among others.