By PHILIP CHANDLER
每个firehouse that serves a college campus or neighborhood should note that September is Campus Fire Safety Month (CFSM). This particular population is truly at risk and yet is unlikely to visit you during the traditional Fire Prevention Week. They will not be climbing on your apparatus or listening with rapt attention as you explain the dangers of fire and how to avoid it or what to do when encountering it. To get your message out to these people, visit them where they live and work. CFSM, coming at the beginning of each new academic year, is the most promising time to focus your full attention on an intractable problem—fires on campus or wherever students are found.
The Center for Campus Fire Safety™ (the Center) reports that more than 100 college students have died in fires during the past 10 years, a number made even more intolerable by the fact that each death was preventable. The sad truth is that college students are simply not prepared to face life away from home for the first time. They are seemingly oblivious to the dangers that surround them and are just as likely as not to exercise poor judgment when it matters the most. As it is with young people everywhere, they feel invincible. These factors all work to create a special challenge to campus fire safety, one that the fire service has not adequately addressed in schools.
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