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Fire Up Fire Safety on Your Campus with PSAs from UMD

  
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By Dr. Andre Marshall, Associate Professor, Director of Fire Testing and Evaluation Center, and Principal of Custom Spray Solutions in the Department of Fire Protection Engineering at University of Maryland.

Through a new initiative, sponsored by commercial and industrial property insurer FM Global, University of Maryland’s Department of Fire Protection Engineering (FPE) is reaching out to an important but often overlooked population--college students--about the importance of fire safety on campus.

In service to the campus community, students from FPE worked with FM Global to produce a series of public service announcement (PSA) videos to educate students about fire safety in the residential living environment. These videos provide the fire safety message through student interviews and narratives, and the format is designed to engage students in thinking about the problem and educate them about common misconceptions in fire safety.

Three PSAs were created, covering fire prevention, fire response, and fire technology, and are available for use on your campus free of charge. To distribute any of these videos on your campus, visit the UMD Department of Fire Protection Engineering YouTube channel, choose your video, and click "share." If you have questions about University of Maryland’s Department of Fire Protection Engineering or its fire protection public service campaign, please visit fpe.umd.edu or contact Dr. Andre Marshall at awmarsh@umd.edu.

The following fire prevention video focuses on what students can do and be aware of to prevent fires from starting.




The following fire response video explains how to react in the event of a fire emergency.





The following fire technology video, which is geared to the higher education risk management community, presents the benefits of sprinklers using engineering-oriented demonstrations at the University of Maryland and at the FM Global Research Campus.


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