NFPA Urban Fire Safety Project Urban Fire Forum October 21, 2011 Sharon Gamache Program Director High-Risk Outreach Programs

Purpose of Urban Fire Safety Task Force To examine the unique challenges facing fire and life safety educators in large cities with populations of 250,000 and more. Develop strategies to address those challenges and share them with large city fire departments. Implement the recommendations of the 2007 Urban Fire Safety Report in cities.

Urban Fire Safety Task Force

20 Cities in 2010 Atlanta, GA Baltimore, MD Charlotte, NC Chicago, IL Cleveland, OH Columbus, OH Dallas, TX El Paso, TX Hamilton, ON Kansas City, MO Louisville, KY Los Angeles, CA Memphis, TN Milwaukee, WI Minneapolis, MN Philadelphia, PA St. Louis, MO St. Paul, MN Tulsa, OK Washington, DC

History of Project

Project Implementations Columbus, Ohio Cleveland, Ohio Hamilton, Ontario Philadelphia, Pennsylvania El Paso, Texas

Partnerships with Housing Organizations

Preventing Arson Together

Remembering When Train-the-Trainer Sessions

Presentations to Older Adults

Meetings with immigrant leaders

Immigrants Easy to read flyers Escape planning Cooking Electrical Safety Heating 9 languages

Analyze numbers of deaths and residential fires by census tract. Community outreach to learn what residents have to say regarding effective delivery of fire safety information.

History of Project El Paso, Texas

NFPA team building

Remembering When Train-the- Trainer Session.

2010/2011 Urban Fire Safety Project El Paso, Texas Outreach to neighborhoods of Burgundy/Lancaster and San Juan Focus groups in high-risk communities Remembering When Train-the- Trainer

Hired DLG research to conduct eight focus groups: four in Spanish and four in English - Older Adult, who live in their own houses or apartments Lower income working parents of children ages 0-7 Single mothers of children 0-14 Low and middle income renters and homeowners

Focus group results What you feel is important in your lives? Health, having a job, taking care of financial well-being of family, taking care of selves in retirement. How you feel about fire safety? Not a priority in ones lives. They are aware of recent fires and fire deaths through media, mostly television.

Focus Groups What do you think of fire dept initiatives on fire safety? Liked reaching kids through schools, reaching older adults, and home surveys and smoke alarms. What about media campaigns? All groups said TV and radio most important.

Five Step Planning Process for Urban Fire Departments 1. Conduct a community analysis 2. Develop partnerships in the community 3. Create a strategy to solve the problem 4. Implement the strategy in the community 5. Evaluate the results

Five Step Planning features planning and implementation examples from large cities.

NFPA urban projects – what we provide Focus groups to help determine best ways to reach audiences in your city. Train the Trainer on NFPAs Remembering When: A Fire and Fall Prevention Program for Older Adults Implementations of two of the Urban Fire Safety Project recommendations