1. Fire Safety Merit Badge

2. Fire Safety Merit Badge
Requirement 1a:
Demonstrate the technique of stop, drop, roll, and cool

3. Fire Safety Merit Badge
Requirement 1a:
Explain how burn injuries can be prevented

4. Fire Safety Merit Badge
Requirement 1b:
List the most frequent causes of burn injuries

5. Fire Safety Merit Badge
Requirement 2
Explain the chemistry and physics of fire
Fire:
“The rapid oxidation of a combustible material, accompanied by the release of energy in the form of heat and light”.

6. Fire Tetrahedron
Firefighter I

7. Fire Safety Merit Badge
Requirement 2
Explain why vapors are important to the burning process

8. Fire Safety Merit Badge
Requirement 2
Name the products of combustion
Smoke
Chemicals
Particulates
Heat
Light

9. Fire Safety Merit Badge
Requirement 2:
Give an example of how fire grows and what happens
Why is a fire in a corner more dangerous than a fire in the center of the room?
Fire in a corner versus the center of the room.

10. Fire Safety Merit Badge
Requirement 3:
Name the most frequent causes of fire in the home and give examples of ways it can be prevented

11. How do home fires start? Cooking Smoking Improper heating practices
(#1 cause)
Smoking
(#1 cause associated with deaths)
Improper heating practices
Electrical problems
Children misusing fire

12. Cooking Fires Common factors Stovetop Cooking Cooking Oil Unattended
Too much heat

13. Smoking-Related Fires
Discard smoking materials properly
Keep Matches and Lighters where children cannot get to them

14. Electricity Don’t overload outlets or extension cords
Repair or replace faulty appliances
Check for appliance recalls at

15. Heat Wisely Don’t use makeshift heating devices
Keep combustible items away from space heaters or other heating appliances
Don’t overload electrical circuits

16. Fire Safety Merit Badge
Requirement 4a:
Explain the role of human behavior in the arson problem in this
“Intentional” fires
Approximately 210,300 fires are intentionally set each year. These fires represent 13 % of all fires reported to fire departments.
Intentionally set fires result in approximately 375 deaths, 1,300 injuries, and $1 billion in direct property loss annually.
Matches (30 %) and lighters (15 %) are the leading heat sources of intentionally set fires.

17. Fire Safety Merit Badge
Requirement 4a:
Explain the role of human behavior in the arson problem in this
Motives:
Revenge/spite
Financial
Gang/Delinquent
Crime concealment
Excitement
Extremists

18. Fire Safety Merit Badge
Requirement 4b
List the actions that cause seasonal fires and explain how these fires can be prevented
Outdoor fires
Burning during unsafe weather conditions
Fall and spring when vegetation is dry
Fireworks
Summer peak

19. Fire Safety Merit Badge
Requirement 4b
List the actions that cause seasonal fires and explain how these fires can be prevented
Cold Weather Issues:
Fireplaces & Chimneys
Unsafe Heating

20. Fire Safety Merit Badge
Requirement 5:
List the common circumstances that cause holiday-related fires and explain how these fires can be prevented
Cooking issues
Use of unsafe decorations
Christmas Trees

21. Fire Safety Merit Badge
Requirement 6a:
Conduct a home safety survey with the help of an adult
Draw a home fire escape plan
Create a home fire-drill schedule, and conduct a home fire drill
ON YOUR OWN
Any questions?

22. Fire Safety Merit Badge
Requirement 6b:
Test a smoke alarm and demonstrate regular maintenance of a smoke alarm
Smoke alarm prop

23. Fire Safety Merit Badge
Requirement 6c:
Explain what to do when you smell gas
What are you smelling?
Indoor versus outdoor smell
Can you safely turn off the gas?
How to check for a small leak

24. Fire Safety Merit Badge
Requirement 6c:
Explain what to do when you smell smoke
How bad is the situation?
No smoke visible
Smell and SEE smoke

25. Fire Safety Merit Badge
Requirement 6d:
Explain how you would report a fire alarm
Buildings with alarm systems
Your house

26. Fire Safety Merit Badge
Explain who should use fire extinguishers
and when these devices can be used

27. Fire Safety Merit Badge
Explain how to extinguish a grease pan fire

28. Fire Safety Merit Badge
Requirement 6e:
Explain what fire safety equipment can be found in public buildings
Requirement 6h:
Explain what precautions to take when in a public building
Walking demonstration

29. Fire Safety Merit Badge
Requirement 11:
Visit a fire station.
Identify the types of fire trucks
You’re Here?
Finish with the tour

30. Fire Safety Merit Badge
Requirement 8:
Explain the difference between combustible and noncombustible liquids
and between combustible and noncombustible fabrics.

31. Fire Safety Merit Badge
Requirement 10a:
Explain the cost of outdoor and wildland fires
and how to prevent them
An estimated 655,200 outdoor fires occur annually in the United States and result in approximately 50 deaths, 875 injuries, and $154 million in losses.
The leading cause of outdoor fires is unintentionally set fires.
The leading factor contributing to outdoor fire ignitions is misuse of materials.

32. Fire Safety Merit Badge
Requirement 11:
Find out about the fire prevention activities in your community
Educational Presentations
Annual business inspections
Public Awareness campaigns

33. Fire Safety Merit Badge
Requirement 12:
Choose a fire safety related career that interests you
and describe the level of education required
and responsibilities of a person in that position
Tell why this position interests you
THIS IS YOUR CHANCE TO ASK AND LEARN!

34. HANDS-ON
Requirement 7a:
Demonstrate lighting a match safely

35. HANDS-ON Requirement 7b:
Demonstrate the safe way to start a charcoal fire

36. HANDS-ON
Requirement 7c:
Demonstrate the safe way to melt wax

37. HANDS-ON Requirement 9a:
Demonstrate the safe way to fuel a lawn mower.

38. HANDS-ON Requirement 9b:
Demonstrate the safety factors, such as proper ventilation, for auxiliary heating devices and the proper way to fuel those devices

39. HANDS-ON Requirement 10b:
Demonstrate setting up and putting out a cooking fire

40. HANDS-ON
Requirement 10c:
Demonstrate using a camp stove and lantern.

41. Fire Safety Merit Badge
Requirement 10d:
Explain how to set up a campsite safe from fire.