Hello!
I am new here as you can see. My name is Dave and I make movies! Movies like, The Crow, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and stuff like that. Anyway Let me get started here.
About 4 years ago the house next door caught fire and burned and though there were plenty of firefighters, 3 children died inside, upstairs, hidden in a closet.
As a father of two I was pretty paranoid at that point and so I decided to go and find some fire safety books at my local library. Low and behold, I found NOTHING. I found books on how to be a firefighter and of course books on firetrucks but nothing on actual fire safety.
I cruised the internet and found a bunch of cheeky junky fire safety movies, usually involving cartoon characters, but nothing REAL.
So I decided to make a movie for fire safety. I don't want to sell it, it's free. I want to make sure every child in America and beyond can see this movie.
I have approached several fire houses and spent the last 4 years learning everything I can about fires, how they act, how to put them out, how they move- everything.
I have been in 17 controlled house fires (Maybe you call them training runs)
The State of Pennsylvania has given me 7 houses to burn down, not for training for firefighters but for use in the movie, these are uncontrolled fires with cameras inside. The houses are furnished exactly how they would be if they had a family inside of them. Dressers have clothing in them, Televisions, kitchen utensils. It is like walking into your own house.
We have filmed some, but not all and I want to make sure, before everything is said and done that I have not missed one single tiny little trick, tip or anything that you can come up with.
This movie will be being sent to the US Department of Education so that they can distribute it to every single child in public schools in the United States in grades 1-5. That is over 45 million children. The cost of the DVDs and packaging is being covered by a few celebrities.
These are children, you have to SHOW them what it will look like, tell them how dark it really gets. Show them what a firefighter looks like. Imagine your 6 years old again, your house is on fire, it's very dark and mom and dad are no where around. The door opens and there's a figure standing there surrounded by billowing smoke and he has a MASK ON! Many children hide and they die. Hopefully after this movie is released, we will have less deaths in America as a whole.
We talk to our kids about the internet, we talk to them about bad touch good touch, but when was the last time you know of someone actually talking to their kids about fire safety.
That might seem like a funny statement on a firefighters board, but I know, and you know, for a fact, that someone here has not done it.
So I need you, the firefighters, responsible for saving lives, to tell me, what do YOU want to see in this fire safety movie for YOUR child.