Frisco Safety Town

While we were in town visiting my family we got the chance to go to Frisco Safety Town. It was so much fun! I think every city needs to have a place like this! Camden had so much fun seeing and playing on the fire truck as well as driving around through safety town!

At first Camden was a little nervous about the whole thing. It took him a while to warm up. We finally convinced him to drive the car around Safety Town after putting Ashtyn in the car and told him that she was gonna drive instead! After he got started he didn't want to stop! He loved driving the car around the town and sitting in the fire truck. They have a truck that they cut off the bottom part half of the wheels to make it more accessible for children to look through.

Ashtyn at 6 months sitting in the drivers seat

This building they do a demo where they start a fire in a metal box to show how the sprinklers in a building can put a fire out.

Safety town has buildings scaled down to look like old Frisco. There are functioning street lights and toll booths for the kids to drive through.

We are checking out the tools they had on display

A pretend firefighter

Camden looking at the fireman.

For those of you that have never heard of safety town here is a description of what it is:

Frisco Fire Safety Town is a place where children learn real life strategies for dealing with emergencies while developing a positive attitude towards safety. Frisco Fire Safety Town combines traditional classroom education methods with unique interactive experiences in a realistic child-sized townscape. Children participate in activities designed to build self-confidence and to strengthen their ability to make safe decisions. Students then have the opportunity to practice a variety of their newly learned safety skills in a safe environment, complete with 5/8^th scale replicas of local buildings, roads with realistic pavement markings, traffic signals and street signs.

Interactive areas include an actual living room and kitchen, which illustrate various fire safety hazards such as a lighter and matches, candles, frayed electrical cords and an overloaded electrical outlet. A child sized bedroom is equipped with a nontoxic “smoke machine” that demonstrates to students how smoke fills a room during a fire. Children then have the opportunity to practice escaping safely from a bedroom through either their primary or backup escape route.

Pedestrian, bicycle and motor vehicle safety are taught in an outdoor environment while children operate battery powered vehicles and ride bicycles on realistic streets. Children have the unique opportunity to practice safety skills from both youth and an adult perspective, while remaining in the safe environment of Frisco Fire Safety Town and under the watchful eye of trained educators.