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Introducing The PREP House
When You Need to Build Learning to Go
 For
fire departments searching for the latest innovation in mobile safety
education technology, Mobile Concepts by Scotty has developed the PREP
(PLAN, RESPOND, EDUCATE, PREPARE) HOUSE.
This customized mobile classroom features portable technology which will
make grant reviewers sit up and take notice. The U.S. Department of Homeland
Security, Fire Prevention and Safety Grants Program awards grants to fire
departments for equipment that will enhance their ability to protect the
public and fire service personnel from fire and related hazards. The PREP
House will enable your department to bring public safety education right
where it's needed most to schools, senior citizens' centers, hospitals, and
community events - to target high-risk populations.
The versatility of the PREP House has the classroom space your department
needs to conduct current programs in and expand into other vital educational
arenas including:
- Fire and Burn Prevention
- Injury Prevention
- AED & CPR Training for the General Public
- Residential Sprinkler Awareness
- Classroom Space for training personnel in the area of public
education, code enforcement and arson prevention
- Fire Extinguisher Training for the General Public
- Wildlife Prevention Programs
- General Prevention/Awareness for alarm systems, knox-box
installation, address markers and other programs needed in your
community
How can you use the newest technology for life safety education and
training outreach? Just ask Paramedic Chris St. John from the English Consul
Volunteer Fire Department in Baltimore County, Maryland. He was successful
in receiving funding through the 2004 Fire Prevention and Safety Grant
Program for the purchase of his mobile classroom.
 Chris
customized his mobile classroom to include high-tech functions
including highspeed Internet hookups, laptop computers, a multimedia
projector, audio-visual equipment, DVD/VCR capabilities, a wireless
loudspeaker, and a closed circuit camera system. Real-world training
opportunities are not only available for the English Consul
Volunteer Fire Department but also for the fire, police, and EMS
personnel in his tricounty area.
The large open floor area inside the PREP House has enough classroom
space for set up of a CPR manikin and an automatic external
defibrillator (AED). Educators can train the general public on these
life-saving techniques with minimal staff time for setup or take
down. The PREP House can be towed directly to where your students
are located; civic organizations, schools, churches, block parties,
etc.
The SCOTTY Fire Safety House is
offered in 3 exterior styles
Click any link at the top of the page to get a
detailed description, floor plans, specs and a photo gallery for any
model.
Read testimonials from our customers and
case studies about our fire safety
trailers.
And dont forget to check listed opportunities for
Firefighter Grants to see how your
department may be eligible to receive funding for a SCOTTY Fire Safety
House.
As ideas grew and took shape, the English Consul Volunteer Fire
Department saw a mobile classroom as a valuable resource not only in
community training, but also in firefighter/EMT recruitment and
retention. As St. John explained, Since many candidates come from
the ranks of our Junior Fire Department, high school and vocational
schools, it is impossible to put these young people in hazardous
situations just to give them a sense of what lies ahead. We realized
that in a high-tech mobile classroom, we could provide that taste.
Chris' advice to any fire department seeking government funding to
build a mobile classroom is to first develop a list of requirements,
then survey the technologies, And write a good grant application,
Chris concluded.
For more information about the Fire Prevention and Safety Grants
program
through Homeland Security, visit the Web site at:
www.firegrantsupport.com.
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