“Look, Listen, and Learn” is the mantra for this year’s National Fire Prevention Week, and the Guthrie Center Fire Department has been educating elementary students on how to be fire ready.

Volunteer firefighters visited classes and held an annual tour of the fire station for the second grade students Thursday. Fire Chief Dave Embleton comments on this year’s fire prevention week, “Well, as usual we send a few people to the elementary school and we go over some fire prevention stuff with them like ‘stop, drop, and roll,’ (and) having two ways to exit your house. Planning the fire drill and having a safe spot when you get outside the home, where to go and make sure that everybody knows where that spot is, whether it be a neighbor’s house, maybe the front lawn, whatever it might be just so everybody knows.”

The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) urges people to be aware that fire can happen anywhere. Three steps the NFPA says can reduce the likelihood of having a fire and how to escape a fire are to look for places a fire could potentially start and take care of those hazards, listen for the sound of the smoke alarm, and learn two ways out of every home and make sure all doors and windows leading outside open easily and are free of clutter.