Fire Safety Educators of Colorado

Fire & Life Safety Educators
Conference of the Rockies

The 2009 conference will be April 22 - 24, 2009 at Winter Park Mountain Lodge in Winter Park, CO. Registration information will be available in January 2009. Registration rates will be $225 per person before March 25, 2009 and $275 per person after March 25, 2009. Agencies that pay for two registrations will receive a third registration for free to invite anyone that they wish. Room rates at the Winter Park Mountain Lodge will be $70 per night with either single or double occupancy. These rates are good through the weekend if you should decide to extend your stay.

Carbon Monoxide Information

With the recent local tragedies due to carbon monoxide poisonings, many people are scrambling to find out just what CO is. The Fire & Life Safety Educators of Colorado have prepared an information sheet to answer many of the FAQs.

Information from the U.S. Fire Administration and Consumer Product Safety Commission

Membership Renewal
It is time to renew agency memberships for 2009. Send in your form and check today to avoid being removed from our email list.

Annual Awards Handed Out

The annual Awards Banquet was held on March 13th in Littleton. Congratulations to the Loveland Fire Department and Loveland Police Department for winning the Program of the Year award for their joint effort in a Fire & Life Safety Activity Book. Congratulations are also in order for the Arvada Fire Department for also winning the Program of the Year award for their cigarette safety campaign "Keep Your Butt out of the Pot" warning citizens of the potential hazards in using a potted plant to extinguish smoking materials.

And congratulations to North Metro Fire Rescue District's Pam Kutchen who was awarded the Fire & Life Safety Educators of Colorado's Educator of the Year.

2008 Annual Report

Last year was a great for the Fire & Life Safety Educators of Colorado and is chronicled in 2008 Annual Report . Special thanks goes out to Einar Jensen for putting the report together.

Next Meeting

Our next meeting will be on May 8, 2009 at North Metro Fire's Training Center at 1006 Weld County Road 11 in Erie.

Coffee will begin
at 8:30 a.m. and the meeting will begin at 9:00.

President
Tracey Taylor
South Metro
Fire Rescue

Vice President
Scott Pribble
Arvada Fire

Secretary
Einar Jensen
South Metro
Fire Rescue

Treasurer
Dawn Blunt
Greater Brighton Fire

At Large
Scott Pringle
Loveland Fire