CRR Week Videos
Watch the CRR Week Executive Team cover the 5 E’s of CRR (Education, Engineering, Economic Incentive, Enforcement, and Emergency Response) and view Success Stories from fire departments nationwide.
Success Stories
We are sharing videos from across the country on what fire departments were doing for CRR Week! Do you have one to share? Send us the YouTube link and we’ll post it here!
Cayce Fire Department
Cayce, South Carolina
Lindsay McDade, Battalion Chief
Muffin the Therapy Horse and Community Risk Reduction Manager McDade travel the community educating on safe medication disposal, dangers of fake pills, opioid awareness education harm reduction and mental wellness. There can be a lot of stigma talking about addiction but Muffin helps foster a sense of connection and allow Cayce Fire Department to have the life-saving conversations in their community.
Pflugerville Fire Department
Travis County ESD No. 2
Pflugerville, Texas
Nicholas Perkins, Fire Chief
Travis County ESD (Emergency Service Department) No. 2 demonstrates how CRR improved emergency readiness with focused smoke-alarm installations that saved a family during a home fire and a data-driven false-alarm reduction strategy that cut nuisance alarms 35% in multifamily and 60% in daycares. The result: fewer unnecessary responses, better firefighter wellness, and a community that’s safer before we arrive. At ESD No. 2, Community Risk Reduction isn’t extra work, IT IS the work, and it makes us safer.
Lynchburg Fire Department
Lynchburg, Virginia
Steve Smallshaw, Strategic Communications Specialist
Walk-About Wednesdays is a program the Lynchburg Fire Department developed following a series of serious house fires in the community. Using data analysis, we identify at-risk neighborhoods and spend several weeks walking through the area, talking with homeowners, handing out fire prevention material and checking to make sure each home has an adequate number of working smoke alarms. If needed, we replace old alarms or install new ones, and also replace batteries. In two and a half years, we have installed more than 530 smoke alarms in homes that needed them, and made valuable connections with the citizens we serve.
Gilbert Fire & Rescue
Gilbert, Arizona
Jean Sperke, Community Risk Reduction Manager
Gilbert Fire & Rescue’s new program, “Take Your Time, You’ve Earned It,” is helping to prevent falls in assisted living and behavioral health facilities. The program is keeping people safe while cultivating new partnerships within the Gilbert community. For years, Gilbert Fire & Rescue has done fall prevention, but the number of falls in Gilbert has remained relatively high. Out of this problem came Gilbert’s own unique outreach effort, “Take Your Time, You’ve Earned It.” Rather than focusing solely on older adults, as had been done previously, Gilbert’s initiative also targeted educating employees at assisted living facilities. Read more >
LAS VEGAS Fire & RESCUE
Las Vegas, Nevada
Collin Sears, EMS Operations Officer | EMS 10 CAS/CRT | MMRS Operations Manager
Community Paramedics: Las Vegas Fire & Rescue (LVFR) has a team of Community Paramedics assigned to EMS Operations, focusing on the concept of “EMS Prevention”, similarly to how Fire Prevention has transformed the fire service from a reactionary force to a fire prevention campaign over the decades. As the daily reliance on our 911 and EMS systems grow into primary health care access portals, EMS must consider new and innovative solutions to provide the community and the EMS system with thoughtful initiatives, promoting efficiencies within our service delivery models, while promoting better patient experiences and outcomes. What is the value of a 911 call that never has to be made? In this video, the Community Paramedics detail their efforts to identify patients experiencing repeated falls and their methodologies aimed to intervene before those repeat falls become a catastrophic medical event.
LAS VEGAS Fire & RESCUE
Las Vegas, Nevada
Collin Sears, EMS Operations Officer | EMS 10 CAS/CRT | MMRS Operations Manager
Crisis Response Team (CRT): Las Vegas Fire & Rescue (LVFR) employs a team of Licensed Clinical Social Works (LCSW) and Case Managers (CM) assigned to EMS Operations in our effort get the Right Resource to the Right Patient at the Right Time in pursuit of the Right Outcome. When patient’s experience mental health emergencies, the traditional 911 system is often their only access to resources, which our Crisis Response Team (CRT) addresses by sending a highly-trained, licensed clinical provider to the scene of the emergency, meeting the patient where they are, promoting a better rapport with the patient, and more direct access to clinical assessment and resources via the LCSW. Historically, that patient would be shuffled to the Emergency Department (ED), likely resulting in an inconsistent experience and tying up valuable real-estate for high-acuity medical patients. Read more >
The 5 E’s of CRR
Members of the CRR Week Executive Team got together over Zoom to talk about each of the 5 E’s of CRR – Education, Engineering, Economic Incentive, Enforcement and Emergency Response. Check out what they had to say in these videos below, which you can link to or embed on your website.