Fire-ED Interactive Community Inc

10/08/2026

Meet the new Fire-ED transport case
Your Teaching Toolkit has a new home, and it's built for the way you actually move this program around.
Take a look through the photos:
• Heavy-duty material. The case is made from the same kind of material used for emergency and firefighter equipment bags, with a reflective stripe and the Fire-ED logo up front so it's easy to spot in the bay or the back of the truck.
• Three storyboards per case, two cases per kit. The boards slide in flat behind the organizer flap, protected on every side. Each case also has room for one more storyboard, so if you add the Wildfire Edition, its two extra boards slot right in with no extra case needed.
• Zippered pouches for every scene. No more Ziploc bags. Each scene's pieces live in their own clear-front pouch, so you can see what's inside and grab the one you need.
• Pouches lift right out of the flap, ready to hand to a helper while you set up the boards.
• Split in two for a reason. Each case weighs about 40 to 50 pounds, so we divided the kit across two cases to keep each one manageable. They sit back to back and strap together at the side when you want the kit to travel as one unit, which comes to almost 100 pounds.
Ways to carry it:
• Two people: use the side handles and share the load.
• One shoulder: each case has a shoulder strap with a grip handle in the middle.
• Both shoulders: if you're feeling strong, one case on each side.
• Our recommendation: a foldable hand truck. Strap the cases on, roll them wherever they need to go, then fold it flat and tuck it away.

To find out more about Fire-ED for your community subscribe at www.fire-ed.com

07/24/2026

This is how community risk reduction works in a small town. 🔥🏘️
With a wildfire active near our home in the Pemberton area, the FireSmart team has been out in the community reminding folks to keep their properties cleared — and this week Fire-ED got to join them at a public event at N’Quatqua First Nation.
No time for a full program that day — just enough for kids to sit down, “dress” a storyboard, and hear about hazards room by room: front yard, living room, kitchen, hallway, bathroom/hallway, bedroom… and the fire station, set a little further away to show it’s across town. Every hazard they spotted got a checkmark. We even ran through how a fire can start from something as small as a candle left burning.
Tribal police, chief and council, educators, and the preschool all stopped by. Some of our adult neighbours got right down on the floor to dress the storyboards themselves. Word spread table to table — the preschool director came by, took a card, and wants to bring us in for a full demonstration at the school. The FireSmart coordinator gathered details on our Wildfire Edition kit (two extra storyboards on outdoor hazards) to bring back to leadership, and another agency has already asked about having us out to demonstrate too.
No hesitation, just an open door and a community ready to learn together.

07/03/2026

Stop asking communities what they need. Start delivering what’s already built

07/01/2026

For decades public education survived on borrowed time and leftover budget. The mandate has now arrived. The data tools are impressive. And the program that actually reaches the community and reduces the risk has always been the missing piece.

CRAIG 1300 can show you which neighbourhood is most at risk. It can’t walk through the door and teach a single child.

Read Part 1-7 of our Field Notes Series to find out what does. 🔗 fire-ed.com/blog

06/12/2026

Three percent. The average budget fire service public education gets. Not a typo.

www.fire-ed.com

06/07/2026

When the escape route is blocked and the window is all that’s left — who taught the community what to do?

We tell children — know your escape route. Get out. Meet at the designated spot. Family safe and accounted for. But nobody was teaching the harder lesson. The one that starts with: what happens when the escape route is gone?

The hall is filled with smoke. The door is hot. Every exit you planned for is blocked. And the window is all you have.

Part 3 of Field Notes From the Front Lines goes to the hard places. The children who banged on the window until they could no longer breathe. The neighbour who had a ladder and was told to stay back. That neighbour is still living with what they cannot unsee. That is a lifetime sentence for someone who was just following instructions.

This is also the post where we talk about the Barho family — seven children lost in Halifax in 2019, thirty seconds from first flame to fully engulfed. A newcomer family from Syria welcomed to Canada with cheering crowds, and never taught what to do when the smoke fills the hall at 2 in the morning.

This is the gap Fire-ED was built to fill.

Read the full article — https://www.fire-ed.com/post/community-fire-safety-education-escape-plan-doesnt-cover

Photo courtesy of a visit to the Cambridge, Ontario Fire Safety Village escape ladder demonstration, circa 2005 — illustrated from the original.

05/19/2026

Your search for the right public education tools is over.

Four decades in the fire service supply space taught me one thing — the right program didn't exist. So I built it.

Fire-ED Interactive. Firefighter-led. Community-driven.

Find us at www.fire-ed.com

05/17/2026

A fire chief friend who has done the public education work himself once said:

"A firefighter wouldn't battle a fire without the right safety gear, tools and equipment. Fire-ED is how we should kit up for public education."

Fully equipped or don't go in

It's not just a standard for the fire ground. It's the standard that keeps families alive — and it belongs in every classroom, every community visit, every fire prevention program that gets delivered to the public.

Walking in without the right tools isn't a minor inconvenience. It's a missed opportunity to reach a family that needed to hear the message.

Fire-ED was built so that never has to happen.

Shaped in the field. Refined by educators. Priced for the departments fighting for every dollar — and the ones that aren't.

Firefighter-led. Community-driven.

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Fully equipped or don't go in – validated by the fire safety professionals who recognized something real in Fire-ED, long before the system was ready to receive it:

Read The Field Notes Here: https://www.fire-ed.com/post/community-risk-reduction-plan-fire-ed

05/07/2026

We can’t keep expecting “free deliverables” and mascot visits to count as valid public education programs.

The costumes. The colouring pages. The stickers and tattoos. All of it well-intentioned. None of it measured. And the death toll keeps climbing.

Article 7 of my Field Notes series is being published soon. It’s called The Cost of Free — and it’s the most direct piece I’ve written in this series.

Fire-ED. Firefighter-led. Community-driven.

04/25/2026

Take us beyond stop, drop and roll and what any brochure can teach us.

A seasoned fire educator will admit:
•Telling people what to do isn’t enough.
•Educators need real teaching tools.
•The public needs to understand fire — how it starts, how it moves, how fast it takes over.

🔗 SoundCloud interview: https://on.soundcloud.com/D9bUZ8GvJcHEBlVVAi

Listen and find out the facts:
•Fire behaviour is the best kept secret in public safety.
•By the time the smoke alarm sounds, we have less than three minutes.
•Not enough time to remember what a pamphlet told us.
•Only enough time to act on what we already know.

This interview says it better than any brochure ever could. Take 20 minutes and listen to why we need to be taken for a deeper dive into knowing what firefighters know: basic fire science.

🔗 SoundCloud interview: https://on.soundcloud.com/D9bUZ8GvJcHEBlVVAi

Then come find out what Fire-ED is building: fire-ed.com

Listen to an interview with Fire and Life Safety Educator and Trainer Rita Paine as she speaks about the problems that exist and the critical need for improvement. For the history of the fire service