Submitted by Michael Petroff
Everyone Goes Home® Region VII Regional Advocate
Everyone Goes Home® Region VII Regional Advocate Michael Petroff presented a condensed Courage to Be SafeSM class to the Kansas State Firefighters Association at a seminar in Salina, Kansas on January 17, 2009. Approximately two hundred fifty firefighters from across the state of Kansas attended the seminar. The Courage to Be SafeSM presentation focused on the implementation of a selection of the Everyone Goes Home® 16 Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives. Various resources for each of the selected Life Safety Initiatives were given and examples of procedures for implementation were discussed. In addition, fifty copies of the Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives Resource Kit Volume 3 were distributed. The Courage to Be SafeSM program was requested in an effort repeat the "zero line-of-duty death" statistic experienced by the State of Kansas in 2008.