Fire education week comes to Baldwin

The Baldwin Fire Department visited a nursery school and then spoke with High School students this week to spread education about fire departments and safety.

The Baldwin Fire Department visited the children at the Community Nursery School located on 717 Luke’s Place on Tuesday, October 18. Firefighters Tom Ryley, Tyler Wagner, Jerry Brown, Manny Gerardino and Lieutenant Ryan Donaldson taught the children how to stop, drop, and roll and other safety practices. The children went home with fire helmets and fire department themed coloring books and stickers.

Later that week the police science class at the Baldwin High School @Shubert visited Baldwin Firehouse Ladder No. 2 located on 1250 Grand on Wednesday October 20. Firefighters Ed Mitchell, Jerry Brown and Tom Ryley helped students try on equipment and briefed the students on how to use the equipment.

Jerry Brown, commissioner of Sanitation Department 2 and a Baldwin firefighter, said he explained the different career choices aviable to firefighters.