Blood Pressure Checks
You are welcome to stop by Station 81 or Station 82 anytime.  As long as crews are available they are happy to take your blood pressure for you!

Station Tours
If you are interested in setting up a station tour, please contact Alison Caton at 425.212.3053.

Bike Helmets
We can provide you with a properly fitted bike helmet for $10.  Please contact Robert Marshall at 425.212.3042, if you'd like to setup an appointment.

Smoke Detectors
Does your home have working smoke detectors in all bedrooms?  Grant monies allow us to provide these to those who need them.  Feel free to call Alison Caton at 425.212.3053 for further information.

Reflective Address Signs
Is your home address easily visible from the road?  Don't wait until an emergency to find out!  Grant monies allow us to provide these to those who need them.  Feel free to contact Robert Marshall at 425.212.3042 for further information.

Life Jacket Loaner Program: “GREAT SUCCESS”
Lake Stevens Fire is a member of the Snohomish County Safe Kids Coalition out of Providence Medical Center in Everett. The county coalition is structured after the National Safe Kids. One of the focuses for injury prevention is the proper use of Life Jackets for Water Safety. Lake Stevens Fire has implemented a “Life Jacket Loaner Program” at Wyatt Park in Lake Stevens. Other sites doing the same in the county are Martha Lake, Silver Lake, Gisberg Ponds, and Kayak Point. These programs are being well received and life jackets are being used on a consistent basis.

Park Rangers are assisting with the program by opening and closing the storage bins each day. As a life jacket is borrowed, citizens are asked to fill out a liability release form (once is required for the season), write in date and size borrowed that day on log sheet, and return jacket to cabinet by 7 p.m. that evening.

This program was patterned after a similar program in place in King County. So far the program has been met with great success. Thank you citizens for helping to sustain a vital prevention program.

Direct any questions about Safe Kids to Robert Marshall, Prevention Specialist @ 425.212.3042.

Risk Watch
Prevention begins with education.  Lake Stevens Fire is dedicated to providing the best education to help you prevent emergencies and injuries.  Risk Watch is providing vital education to many classes in our schools.   For those classes not currently using Risk Watch, the following programs provide updated safety and fire prevention. Visit the Risk Watch Site

• Pre-Kindergarten--visit by fire department
• Kindergarten--education/station tours/handouts
• 1st Grade--911 with "Freddie" the fire truck/handout
• 2nd Grade--video/handouts
• 3rd Grade--video/handouts
• 4th, 5th, up--Safety Fire House/handouts
• Seniors--Kitchen Safety/Falls Prevention
• Businesses--Fire Extinguishers/CPR

Champion Update
In March of 1999, the Lake Stevens Community and Lake Stevens Fire were chosen by the National Fire Protection Association as one of twenty sites in North America as a "Champion" site for the implementation of the Risk Watch curriculum in its schools.  Risk Watch, an all injury prevention program, addresses the eight leading causes of injury and death to children under the age of fourteen.   These focuses are motor vehicle, fire and burns, choking/suffocation/strangulation, poisoning, falls, firearms, bicycle, pedestrian, and water. 

The "Champion" award required that classes using the curriculum complete all of the focuses by January 2000.  It also required pre and post testing and evaluations to be performed.  As a result of testing, 648 students showed an average knowledge gain of 11%.  Our hat goes off to our teachers for a job "well done".

A third "success" save was also recorded involving Firearm injury prevention.  This involved one of our 2nd graders, Johnathon Terry, who used what he had learned in Risk Watch to prevent himself and his cousin from serious injury or death after discovering a firearm at a relative's residence.  Once again this proves the power of prevention education and the effects it has in our children's lives.

In March 2000, the State of Washington was chosen as a "Champion" state for Risk Watch.  During the year 2000, there were five community sites throughout the state that implemented the program.  Projections are in place for ten sites in the year 2001 and ten sites in the year 2002.  Lake Stevens Fire is a mentor for the new communities implementing Risk Watch for the State Of Washington.

Currently Lake Stevens has over 60 classes using the Risk Watch program and is continually working with the schools to bring more teachers on board.

Community Emergency Response Team
The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) concept was developed and implemented by the City of Los Angeles Fire Department in 1985. They recognized that citizens would most likely be on their own during the early stages of a catastrophic disaster. Accordingly, the fire department decided that some basic training in disaster survival and rescue skills would improve the ability of citizens to survive until responders or other assistance could arrive. The training program proved to be so successful in Los Angeles, that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) felt the concept should be made available to communities nationwide. The CERT materials were expanded to make them applicable to all hazards and provide to local agencies. Lake Stevens Fire recognized the value of this program, and is now offering classes to you.

To register for the class, please contact Robert Marshall at 425.212.3042.