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Alaska FOCUS on Safety
 The
Alaska FOCUS on Safety program is a rural, school-based injury prevention
program, designed by Alaskans for Alaskans. The FOCUS team designed an injury
prevention curriculum using Alaska State Trauma Registry data and incorporating
successful Alaskan injury prevention programs. A local artist (Diane
Barske) was
commissioned to create posters depicting rural Alaska Native people exhibiting
appropriate safety practices. Each section is introduced by audio
tapes of Alaska Native story tellers, who bring to life the adventures from the
safety stories. Injuries are the number one killer of young Alaskans and
we need to prepare them with lifetime safety skills.
Contact Sue Lyons, Niki Pereira, or Ron Perkins at 929-3939
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LIFE SAVED (March 2007): Debbie Hartman- McGrath resident who
was saved by her "vocal" smoke alarm:
"I was dozing off on
my couch, asleep when I was awakened by the sound of Bruce Kalfas
(McGrath Volunteer Fire Fighter that recorded "Tyler get out of the
house, the house is on fire") LOUD voice. It
was so loud I jumped up and ran out of the house. Bruce Kalfas lives
next door and happened to be outside in his yard when I screamed to him
that my house is on fire."
Bruce and girlfriend
Vera Mercer ran in to find that 2 kettles on the wood stove were empty
and burning heavy smoke fumes throughout the house. Bruce says, "if that
alarm didn't go off she would have been gone by affixation, cause the
smoke was thick all throughout the house."
Debby thanks Bruce for
recording the vocal smoke alarm and that it did save her life. She says
that the vocal smoke alarm is so loud and repeats over and over, that it
had her heart pumping and she shook for hours after the incident.
RESOURCES
The links below will take you to a comprehensive list of
publications, websites, contacts, student activities, songs, skits and more.
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