Johnson County RFD #1 Fire Corps members comprised of students from the University of the Ozarks’ Phi Beta Lambda (PBL) organization in Clarksville, Arkansas, recently won first place in the Community Service competitive event at the PBL National Leadership Conference in Chicago, Illinois. Their Fire Corps project was selected from a field of 25 universities and colleges from across the United States.
Phi Beta Lambda is a national education association of students preparing for careers in business and business-related fields. Its mission is to bring business and education together in a positive working relationship through innovative leadership, career development, and community service programs.
Senior marketing major and RFD #1 Fire Corps Director, Kari Wood, from San Antonio, Texas led the Fire Corps effort to a first place in the PBL Community Service competition.
Fire Corps is a component of Citizen Corps, a national grassroots effort under the Department of Homeland Security to involve citizens in helping their communities prevent, prepare for, and respond to natural and man-made disasters and other emergencies.
Phi Beta Lambda is a national education association of students preparing for careers in business and business-related fields. Its mission is to bring business and education together in a positive working relationship through innovative leadership, career development, and community service programs.
Senior marketing major and RFD #1 Fire Corps Director, Kari Wood, from San Antonio, Texas led the Fire Corps effort to a first place in the PBL Community Service competition.
Fire Corps is a component of Citizen Corps, a national grassroots effort under the Department of Homeland Security to involve citizens in helping their communities prevent, prepare for, and respond to natural and man-made disasters and other emergencies.
Ozarks’ Fire Corps members assist Johnson County RFD #1 firefighters with a variety of efforts, including conducting fire safety education in the county, state and nation. PBL members participating in Fire Corps earn community service credit for their involvement with the program.
Fire Corps members promote fire safety to young children in schools within a two county area and to their peers on campus. Members have been instrumental in helping the department’s public fire and life safety educator reach millions of children and their caregivers nationwide with their fire safety efforts through the national media on FOX and Friends and PBS KIDS Sprout. Among the many fire safety related educational activities the students participate in include installing smoke alarms for residents in the community, co-sponsoring a Fire Safety Billboard and Calendar contest for local school children, and helping plan and implement the annual Fire Safety Awareness Parade and Kidsfest Safety Fair in which attendance doubled last year.
Since its involvement in spring of 2005, Fire Corps members have donated over 5,000 hours and participate in over 350 hours of fire safety education training annually. Their efforts, along with department’s firefighters, helped produce a 34 percent decrease in residential property loss for the department’s district.
Fire Corps members concentrate a majority of their time promoting Fire Corps and its benefits statewide and nationally. Members are also working to promote Fire Corps as a national FBLA-PBL community service project among 15,000 chapters across the US.
For more information on Johnson County RFD #1 Fire Corps program, visit the department’s website at http://www.rfd1.com/ or contact Dayna Hilton at daynark@gmail.com
Fire Corps members promote fire safety to young children in schools within a two county area and to their peers on campus. Members have been instrumental in helping the department’s public fire and life safety educator reach millions of children and their caregivers nationwide with their fire safety efforts through the national media on FOX and Friends and PBS KIDS Sprout. Among the many fire safety related educational activities the students participate in include installing smoke alarms for residents in the community, co-sponsoring a Fire Safety Billboard and Calendar contest for local school children, and helping plan and implement the annual Fire Safety Awareness Parade and Kidsfest Safety Fair in which attendance doubled last year.
Since its involvement in spring of 2005, Fire Corps members have donated over 5,000 hours and participate in over 350 hours of fire safety education training annually. Their efforts, along with department’s firefighters, helped produce a 34 percent decrease in residential property loss for the department’s district.
Fire Corps members concentrate a majority of their time promoting Fire Corps and its benefits statewide and nationally. Members are also working to promote Fire Corps as a national FBLA-PBL community service project among 15,000 chapters across the US.
For more information on Johnson County RFD #1 Fire Corps program, visit the department’s website at http://www.rfd1.com/ or contact Dayna Hilton at daynark@gmail.com
