The Arvada Fire Department’s Adult
Education program also cover a wide range of topics and the
firemen enjoy going out and speaking at different events and for
different groups like churches or for Home Owner’s Associations,
or whoever else need respective service. Please visit
HomeSafetyInspections.com; we also offer smoke detector
services, business inspection services CP and more.
Smoke Detector Inspector
When smoke rises from a blaze or
impending inferno sometimes your own senses can fail you; before
you know it you’ll awake sweating in your bed as a large thick
black cloud of smoke is forming in your room, that’s if you wake
up before it fills the whole thing. If you manage to crawl your
way to safety and not sustain smoke inhalation, you are luck.
Imagine, however that all of this couldn’t have been prevented
and you would’ve awaken to a bright, bird-singing morning,
complete with blinking smoke detector light as you walk down the
hall, indicating that the battery is not dead. Out of all homes
with smoke detectors, twenty-five percent of maintain a battery
with life of zero. This is either a false sense of security or
simple neglect, both are equally as dangerous.
Business and Home Inspection
Every year firefighters enter the
business district with the intent of inspecting the businesses
to ensure that the companies are maintaining a safe work
environment for its employees and customers. If an individual
requests to have a firefighter enter their home and determine
the deadly factors pertaining to fires in there, they will do
so. They recommend that instead of cleaning your home before
their fireman’s visit; leave it just as you live in it for two
reasons. The first is so they can tell you exactly what the
potential risk for fire is in your home because if you move it a
hazard that is usually there could reappear after the fireman
leaves. The other reason is if the officers ever need to enter
not-your-specific house to rescue somebody, it’s good to have
good bearings on the different living-styles of different
people.
CPR and First-Aid
The Arvada Fire Protection District is also proud to offer CPR
and fist aid classes taught by their ASHI certified
firefighters. The CPR classes are 4 hours long and concluded
with two tests to ensure you have accurate CPR performing
abilities on paper and in its practice. After the test you
receive a certificate allowing you to perform CPR on those who
may be in your presence and call to be revived.
The first aid class just teaches in the
management of multiple-victim disasters to basic knowledge on
wrapping wounds and other survival skills.
Fire Extinguisher lessons
At the training center or at your
business we can teach you and your employees all of the
important aspects of fire extinguisher use to help ensure the
efficient immediate removal of potentially seriously dangerous
hazards. The lesson includes a live demonstration for a small
fee for supplies only. The lesson is designed to ensure that
everyone is comfortable with the use of a fire extinguisher so
in the event that they are called to action to use one, they can
perform effectively.
Senior Safety
Older individuals are two times as
likely to be killed in fires located in their home than young
adults or medium-aged adults. There are many potential hazards
that seniors should look-out for and the firefighters aren’t
selling anything; they’ve always been the good guy. When they
leave, seniors will be educated on major potential hazards and
other "watch outs" in their homes.
