Junior High To High School Children In Trenggalek Are Taught How To Put Out The Fire

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JAKARTA - The Trenggalek Fire Department (Damkar), East Java has the program "Fires to School Fire Empowerment". They provide education on handling fires for students and educators in the regional schools.

"This program is part of socialization as well as education about the procedures for handling fires in the community, especially among educators and school students," said Head of the Fire and Non-Fire Rescue Section, Civil Service Police Unit and Trenggalek Regency Fire Department, Burhanuddin in Trenggalek, Wednesday, December 28, as reported by Antara.

Socialization targets various levels of education, ranging from PAUD, TK, SD, SMP to SMA. Officers who came also brought a number of devices for demonstrations.

Firefighters provide educational material while giving examples or demonstrations by inviting participants to practice directly in dealing with the flames that are starting to occur.

"The material submitted is of course adjusted to the level of education of the participants in socialization. For example, what should be done if you see a fire incident around his house. Such as running and screaming for help, not playing matches and so on. Different materials from the upper middle class," he said.

For the materials of junior high school to high school, he said, students are taught how to extinguish fires in the event of a certain scale of fire.

The initial handling was a decisive step so that the impact of the fire could be minimized. But to practice it, it usually requires special skills and courage.

In addition to providing material on fire prevention and prevention, firefighters also introduced several fire extinguishers from various scales. Starting from how to use light fire extinguishers to extinguishing equipment using water that is commonly carried out.