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Fire and Life Safety Educator of the Year
Let’s celebrate fire and life safety educators! Educators are key to the success of NFPA’s programs. That’s why NFPA’s “Educator of the Year” Award is so important. It gives educators the recognition they deserve for playing the lead role in making their communities safer.
We are looking for fire and life safety educators who:
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work for a local fire department.
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use NFPA's Risk Watch®, Learn Not to Burn®, Remembering WhenTM or Fire Prevention Week materials.
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use NFPA materials in a consistent and creative way.
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demonstrate excellence and innovation, reaching out to the community with NFPA materials.
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view NFPA as the source for safety information.
The 2010 "Educator of the Year" will receive:
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$1,000 honorarium.
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travel to Las Vegas, in June 2010 for an award presentation at the opening general session of the NFPA annual conference.
The local fire department will receive:
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$1,000 donation to support public education activities.
Download an application (PDF, 148 KB). The deadline is February 26, 2010. NFPA will announce the 2010 "Educator of the Year" at the NFPA annual conference.
2009 recipient
Dayna Hilton firefighter/ fire safety educator with the Johnson County RFD #1 in Clarksville, Arkansas, has been named the 2009 Fire and Life Safety Educator of the Year. She volunteers nearly 3,000 hours each year to provide fire safety education to the public and has been using NFPA’s Learn Not to Burn® curriculum and Fire Prevention Week materials since she became a fire safety educator in 2002. Firefighter Hilton and “Sparkles” the Dalmatian have reached millions of children and adults on PBS Kids Sprout and Fox and Friends television programs with NFPAs fire safety messages. In 2003 she initiated the annual fire safety awareness parade in her community, which grows in size each year.
- 2008 - Dawn Cull, Harrisonburg, VA
- 2007 - Vanita Krouch and jeff Malkowski, Farmers Branch, TX
- 2006 - Tina Dotson,
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