Each year during Family Safety Day at Warsaw’s Central Park, children and their parents learn about safety education.
This Saturday’s event, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., will be no different.
Throughout the day, participants can experience a variety of hands-on learning activities, demonstrations and games, all offered for free to participants. Children are encouraged to take part in the “Safety Scavenger Hunt” to make sure they don’t miss anything, according to a news release from Warsaw-Wayne Fire Territory.
Among the activities planned for 2017 are: the bicycle rodeo, zip line, boat and bucket truck rides, gummy worm surgery, photo booth, inflatable obstacle course, fire extinguisher simulation and Pink Heals National Tour. Don’t miss a chance to meet firefighters, state police, county sheriffs, paramedics, linemen, Indiana Department of Natural Resources officers, dive team members, Sparky the Fire Dog and Daren the Lion. Face painting and balloon art will be provided and a variety of health and safety organizations will also have booths inside Center Lake Pavilion.
New this year, come watch the Warsaw-Wayne Fire Territory burn a doll house – all in the name of education. The smoke and flame patterns will help onlookers understand basic fire behavior, including flashover and the effects of horizontal and vertical ventilation.
Sparks will fly high as Kosciusko REMC linemen use hot dogs, balloons and stuffed animals to simulate the dangers of electricity during the Live Line Electric Safety demonstration.
Scheduled events are:
• 11 a.m. activities open
• 11 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Parkview Samaritan helicopter
• 11:30 a.m. live fire doll house demonstration
• 12:30 p.m. live line electric safety demonstration
• 1 to 3 p.m. Lutheran Air helicopter
This year’s event is presented by the Warsaw-Wayne Fire Territory and sponsored by Kosciusko REMC, Lutheran Health Network KCH and media sponsor Lake City Radio.
For more information on Family Safety Day, visit the city’s website at www.warsaw.in.gov (departments/fire/family safety day).
