About the Rogue Valley Fire Prevention Cooperative
- The co-op is an interagency nonprofit fire service organization
- It unites agencies engaged in fire prevention and public education
- It promotes an interagency exchange of ideas, programs and resources in the area of fire prevention and public education
- It promotes, coordinates and actively supports interagency participation in fire prevention activities
- It acts as a central agency for the exchange of professional information among its members
- It obtains a reduction in the number of preventable fires within the jurisdiction of the cooperative
Members of the cooperative help spread the fire prevention message by:
- Taking Smokey Bear and his helpers to first-grade classrooms every spring to talk about wildfire prevention
- Teaching children about home fire safety in the co-op's mobile Fire Safety House
- Organizing and supporting a local wildfire prevention and education team
- Making its members available for speaking engagements to groups of kids or adults
One of Smokey's friends gets a hug during a Team Teaching visit to a first-grade classroom