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| Call Number: | 41102 |
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Delivering fire and life safety education to the Hispanic community |
| Author(s): | Myers, Harry K. ; Tulsa. Fire Department. |
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| Description: | 37 p. |
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| Publication Data: | Emmitsburg, MD : National Fire Academy. August 2007 |
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| Identifier/s: | Accession No.: 126846 |
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| Type of Item: | (EFO PAPER)  |
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www.usfa.dhs.gov/pdf/efop/efo41102.pdf (134.4 kb) |
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| Subjects: | 1. FIRE SAFETY PROGRAMS 2. PUBLIC EDUCATION 3. HISPANICS |
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| Series Data: | Executive Fire Officer Program. Applied Research Project |
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| Summary/abstract: | - The Tulsa Fire Department (TFD) has experienced difficulty delivering effective fire and life safety communications to the Hispanic community. The problem is that because the TFD has not developed an effective program to deliver fire and life safety education to the Hispanic community, this particular group is at a much higher risk for fire-related injuries and death. The purpose of this research is to identify and describe the obstacles in delivering fire and life safety education to the Hispanic community in Tulsa, what the TFD and other fire departments in Oklahoma currently do to deliver this type of education to their respective Hispanic communities, and what TFD could do to improve its current fire and life safety education program. Descriptive research methodology will be utilized to answer the following questions: 1. What are some obstacles that exist to delivering fire and life safety education to the Hispanic community? 2. What, if anything, does the TFD do to
deliver fire and life safety education to the Hispanic community? 3. What, if anything, do other fire departments in Oklahoma do to deliver fire and life safety education to the Hispanic community? 4. What are some ways in which the TFD could improve its fire and life safety education efforts in the Hispanic community? The procedures utilized for this applied research project included an extensive literature review and the administration of two survey instruments. The first survey was distributed in an effort to collect specific data from the TFD members (interdepartmental survey) and the second survey was conducted in order to attain specific information from the ten largest fire departments in the state of Oklahoma (external survey). The results of the research concluded that TFD would benefit from implementing a formal program to deliver fire and life safety education to the Hispanic community. The recommendations established for the TFD included: formalize a Safety
Services Division program to deliver fire and life safety education to the Hispanic community and gain support from the fire chief, command staff, and Local #176 of the International Association of Firefighters through the utilization of the established Labor-Management Committee Process to jointly develop and implement a program to deliver fire and life safety education to the Hispanic community.
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| Notes: | Tulsa, OK; Leading Community Risk Reduction; Abstracts for EFO papers are written by the author |
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| Availability: | Available on Interlibrary Loan |
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| Copies: | - c.1: DOCUMENT ROOM - ROOM 209 [Status: IN]
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