This week fire departments in the Drumheller area and across Canada are stressing the importance of safety in the kitchen. October 6 to October 12 is Fire Prevention Week. Over the week, The Mail is saluting the hard working firefighters in our area.

Members of the Drumheller Fire Department include Chief Bill Bachynski, Deputy Bruce Wade, Deputy Chief Luigi Vescarelli, Captain Duane Bolin, Captain Rick Schinnour, Captain Peter Gruber, Captain Jordan Harper, Kyle Suntjens, Bob Boyce,  Ryan Young,  Mitch Smith, Cody Blasken, Travis Hardy, Chris Knight, James Martin, Blaine Zacharuk, Lee Borsheim, Gary Greaves, Steven Wade, Stephen Hatt, Darryl Benner, Keith Poole, Reg Gallagher, Rod Audy, Merv Smith , Matt Bolin, Trevor Scott, Craig Comstock, Eric Poitras and Michael Devaleriola.

    Delia and Morrin School students had a fun way to learn about fire safety last Friday.
    Mary Lambert educates through music and on Friday, October 4, she was in Delia School in the morning, and then in Morrin School in the afternoon to deliver Sing Out  Fire Safety, a fun and musical show with an important message at its heart.

Mary Lambert was helped by Morrin School students last Friday delivering Sing Out Fire Safety, a musical peformance with fire safety as its key message. Starland FCSS brought the production to Delia School and Morrin School.

    Lambert is a Juno award winning recording artist based out of Calmar.  She developed the program in 1999 with a fire chief of the Township Of Beckwith in Ontario. Since then, it has been delivered to hundreds of students across the country. And it has made a difference.
    “One true story I share is of a young girl who saved her dad from being badly burned,” said Lambert. “He didn’t know what to do and she learned what to do from one of these shows.”
    According to her web site, Mary takes her audience through many aspects of fire prevention and fire safety during this interactive musical performance. Children will learn more about what firefighters do, and many important fire safety tips, including the importance of smoke detectors and what to do when they go off.
    The show was brought to the students by Starland FCSS and was requested by the Munson Fire Department, and came on the cusp of National Fire Prevention Week.
Diana Rowe, Starland FCSS coordinator said she learned of Mary Lambert’s production after seeing a show on literacy in Drumheller last year.
     The performance was brought to elementary aged students at Delia and Morrin. Members of the area fire departments participated in the performance, as did students.
    ‘I have lots of different themed shows for schools, but I love this one because it has a really important message,” said Lambert.