Being a parent, it’s hard to educate or explain to children about fire safety. And at times, what’s told to children gets lost in translation.
Children today are bombarded with multimedia presentations, from TV, movies, cartoons, etc. Have you ever wondered how your children remember every single detail about the cartoon or movie show they watched months ago and they can tell you the story from A to Z!!? They could explain the cartoon characters to you in detail. 
As a parent and Sunday School teacher, yours truly (Uncle Johnny) was given a task of teaching our Sunday School children about fire safety.
The fire-drill held on March 6th, 2011, consisted of 2 parts. The first part teaching about fire safety and the second was the actual evacuation drill.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU4-uYfK-hU[/youtube]
As the saying goes, ‘A Video Is Worth A Million Words, or more….’, so I had to find materials on fire safety to educate our Sunday School children. Scouring the internet for that perfect video was like looking for a needle in a hay stack!! With God’s help, *phew*, I found a suitable material on youtube. It’s a video about fire safety, entitled “Be Cool About Fire Safety”. Alas, the video quality is not good enough to be shown on a BIG screen!! 
With exact information, I scoured the internet again searching for this wonderfully made video. And finally, with God’s help again, *He is the God of the impossible, isnt He!!* found a good quality video. 
When we started the video, the children’s eyes were glued to the video. Not a single children moved!! It contains stories, songs, jokes, fire safety points which are easy to follow, etc etc. Well, you get my drift! 😛 And the children love it. 
Parents, you can view the same video which we have uploaded to youtube. Watch it with your children. Be educated and entertained about fire safety! And plan your own fire drills at home!!
After the video was shown, the children went back to their respective classes for the teachers to take down attendance.
We started the fire drill by first ringing the fire alarm bell. The drill is to let the children be exposed to the ringing sound of the fire alarm bell.
So while the children were in class, the bell rang loud, shrill and clear! Like obedient children that they are, they quickly came out from their classes, lined up in single file, and walked down the pre-assigned staircases led by their teachers – just like in real-life fires, no one is supposed to use the lifts.
The children reached the ground floor and made their way to the Methodist High School canteen where they assembled. We completed the fire drill – from evacuation of classrooms to the time the last child assembled at MHS – in about 7 minutes.
For doing a first-class job, everyone was treated to a snack of Twiggies and Vitagen. We hope we’ll never have to face a real-life fire evacuation, but we need to be prepared. Every one of God’s children is precious!! 
Let me stop babbling here for now. Look through the pictures of the children doing the fire drill.
Pssst…. Thank God, we only have 3 floors to walk down!! hahahaha…..
Report : Johnny Lim
Photos : Michael