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Child's window fire/rescue sticker
When kids come to the station we send them home with gift bags, including a child rescue sticker for their window..Our chief told us to inform parents to put it on the childs interior door, due to child abductions... This really slapped me in the face because it is a very obvious thing...."There's a kids room". Has anyone else had this advisory?...
Be Safe
Jacob
Be Safe
Jacob
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Permalink Reply by Chief 29 on
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We had stopped handing those stickers out a few years ago for the same reason.
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Permalink Reply by Paul Montpetit on
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No, but I will tell you another story.....Report of a structure fire...upon arrival and size up...confirmed working structure fire...Child Rescue sticker noted....entry via window into the suspected childs room.......Fall of approximately 15 feet to the floor....building had been renovated and was now used for storage...people had never removed the sticker when the room was not longer child occupied.....That's the real danger with the stickers...now we had a downed Firefighter......Paul
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Permalink Reply by Tom Chmielowiec Jr. on
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I was told they stopped making those, and now there are 4x4 refective stickers that go a foot to 2 feet from the bottom of the child's door
Junior
Omnis Cedo Domus
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Permalink Reply by Michael Simpson on
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i also was unaware that you could still find these. i was told that they took them off market several years ago
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Permalink Reply by Ben Waller on
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Frankly, I don't pay attention to these stickers except to note that there may be a child in the structure.
You find viable occupants through looking and listening during the primary search.
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Permalink Reply by Fireyladd - Retired Chief Sharp on
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We quit doing this long ago because people move so much. When they move out the stickers do not get removed and this could mislead us to thinking that kids are in this room. Same thing with pet stickers.
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Permalink Reply by Jason Brooks on
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I have heard this from many departments. This is very similar to why my wife, fiancee at the time, got a ticket in my City with an IAFF decal on her car. They never asked and she did not speak up. They thought old car, old decal. Too many times, these decals are left behind or the child has grown up and moved out. Following these decals like a moth to the flame is a recipe for disaster. Great idea when it came out. Too bad that we have no way to inspect or enforce their use.
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Permalink Reply by Tony P on
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Never heard of those sorts of stickers, whether for window or internal door use. Just follow information given at the scene or normal search plan. As for the 'Baby on Board' plates in cars? I've always ignored them - they are placed in the car by a parent and then forgotten, a waste of our time at an MVA. Babies must be in a capsule here anyway, and all children in a harness - not only protects them but we know where to look!
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Permalink Reply by Mick Shelley on
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I don't see the need for stickers, we still have to do a search of the premise when it is posable to do so any way, and really who is looking for a sticker, most of the time we are on the floor looking for victims.
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