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Here you'll find resources to teach the importance of 'Stop, drop and roll' to children.
Beep tells us more about what to do if your clothes catch on fire and how to stop, drop and roll.
Hello, Beep here. Well, we have learned that bonfires and barbecues could all be unsafe. Remember you must not play with fire or get too close and if you can just remind your grown-ups not to leave fires unattended and always puts out all bonfires and barbecues properly and the fire service would be very happy.
But we don't just have fires outside, we also have fire inside the house. For example a fire to keep us warm or candles for celebrations such as birthdays, Halloween or religious festivals. It is important that we are careful anytime we around anything that is burning. Remember fire is not something that you ever play with and that includes lighters and matches too.
Do you recognise this? You might have noticed these labels on your clothes or your blankets or towels. Check your school uniform and see if you can find this label. This means that if you're near any sort of fire the material and the clothes you wear could catch fire from sparks or flames and start to burn quickly. This is especially true if you've got fancy dress costumes. We're going to learn what to do if this happens and your clothes catch fire.
So this is what you do if your clothes catch fire.
First of all, you've got to STOP. You really mustn't run around because you only make the flames worse. You shouldn't pour anything over it either or try to take the bit of clothing off.
Then what you do is you DROP. So, you lie down on the floor.
Then what you have to do is ROLL. You roll one way and then the other and you keep doing this because it makes it harder for the fire to spread.
Someone should also call 999. Remember what you have to do is stop, drop and roll. So what I like you to do is I'd like you to tell your grown-ups, your brother's, your sisters, your grandparents, your auntie's, your uncles; anybody that you know. If their clothes catch fire what they have to do is STOP, DROP and ROLL and this can be done by absolutely anyone. Have you got that?
So that's it. Stop, drop and roll. There's no worksheet to do for it. All I'd like you to do, is practice it and get other people who you live with to do it too. Talk to friends and other people in your family and ask them to practice stop drop and roll.
Firefighter Alex shows you how to stop, drop and roll.
[Background noise of a fire engine siren as the doors of a fire station open]
Alex: Hi, my name is Alex.
I'm a firefighter here at Crownhill Fire Station on Blue Watch.
As we haven't been able to come out and do school visits this year, we thought we'd deliver this short video on what to do if your clothes were to catch fire.
The three things we need you to do are:
I will demonstrate this now.
[Alex lies on the ground and covers his face. He then rolls over and over sideways like a log to one side before rolling back the other way.]
Alex: Thank you for watching.
