Volunteer Honored for Fire Prevention Work
The Philadelphia Fire Department recognized Enterprise Fire Co. safety officer Jim Anders Jr. for a decade of volunteer efforts.
In any language, fire safety means having a smoke detector, checking its batteries regularly and knowing how to properly evacuate a building in the event of a fire. For the last decade, Enterprise Fire Co. safety officer Jim Anders Jr. has helped the Philadelphia Fire Department share those and other fire prevention messages through his work with the Citizens for Fire Prevention Committee. A former vice chairman of the committee, the group, with Anders' help, compiled fire prevention calendars, pamphlets, fliers for school-aged children, a fire safety app for iPhones and Android devices and more. At the end of 2003, when the first run of calendars were printed, Anders said 100,000 were printed in English and more were printed in other …
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