Village Tour

The following pages in this virtual tour of the Survive Alive Village illustrate the interactivity of Survive Alive's mission. Each page that follows will offer the following options to help you explore and learn on this virtual tour. The links at the bottom of the page will take you to the next area on the virtual tour, allow you to click on lessons or allow you to return to a previous page of the virtual tour.

Firefighters Survive Alive! Program Overview Video

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Classroom

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The classroom is used at the beginning of each session to cover safety topics and have discussions over topics and issues that are not covered while touring the Survive Alive Village. Articles of interest here are the firefighter's suit, sprinkler system and the brass firehouse pole, which is always a favorite. Video presentations and demonstrations can also be planned at the end of the village tour while students are gathered together to conclude the session.

Lessons that are learned while visiting the Firefighters Survive Alive! Classroom

  • Firefighters need special equipment when fighting fires.
  • Watch for electrical appliances next to water sources, like sinks and bathtubs
  • Stay away from chemicals, cleansers and cleaners that can hurt you. Your parents should mark the containers with some kind of sticker or permanent marker picture to warn you.
     

Main Street

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Firefighters Survive Alive! is dedicated to helping children learn more about fire safety by using hands-on teaching methods. The Main Street of Firefighters Survive Alive! Village is a reproduction of an actual street, featuring homes that allow children to experience simulated fire emergencies and practice life-saving skills.

Lessons that are learned while visiting the Firefighters Survive Alive! Main Street

  • Firefighters have lots of important things to think about during an emergency. They are thinking of ways to save lives and people's property.
  • Stay away from firefighters and their equipment when they are putting out a fire or helping someone.

Kitchen

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The kitchen in the Survive Alive Village is filled with real appliances that are used to show safety hazards. Simulated red lighting gives the appliances a look that they are on fire. Other items included in the kitchen help the tour guide show furnace room safety, electrical hazards, poisons, household chemicals and microwave oven safety.

Lessons that are learned while visiting the Firefighters Survive Alive! Kitchen

  • Watch out for electrical fires in the fusebox. They can happen from foreign objects flying into the fusebox, or even from metal-containing lint completing a circuit.
  • The furnace can be a source of fire in a home, as well. Keep the area surrounding it free of combustible items, and be sure to vacuum around the furnace occasionally to keep the dust and flammable lint from getting too near the flame of a gas furnace. 
  • The stove can turn out to be more than a place to cook dinner. Make sure those pot handles are turned in toward the back of the stovetop so that people walking by don't catch their clothing on the pot handles and accidentally scald or burn themselves. Dishtowels should always be kept away from the stovetop, too.
  • Even the refrigerator can be the cause of a fire. Make sure that the motor and the condensor coils are kept lint-free by vacuuming them regularly, and make sure that towels and trash don't get too close to the motor. Check every electric appliance regularly for worn electrical cords.

First Floor Bedroom

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This bedroom is on the first floor of the Firefighters Survive Alive! Village. The safety topics discussed and practiced in this room are: planning an escape route, crawling to escape the smoke, feeling the door before exiting, covering the cracks in a door, and  testing a smoke detector.

Lessons that are learned while visiting the Firefighters Survive Alive! First Floor Bedroom

  • Small fires can grow into BIG ones fast!
  • Cover the cracks in a hot door that is leaking smoke into the room to gain more time to escape.
  • Smoking in bed can be very hazardous to your health!

Second Floor Bedroom

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This second story bedroom has a window that opens onto the roof to allow the kids on the tour to climb out and escape from the house fire simulation. A door in the second story bedroom heats up to simulate a fire behind it. Safe "stage" smoke then fills the room to create a safe, yet realistic, fire escape practice situation.

Lessons that are learned while visiting the Firefighters Survive Alive! Second Floor Bedroom.

  • Do not hide under a bed or in a closet when you smell smoke. Get out quickly, if it's safe. If it isn't safe, make lots of noise to attract attention from Firefighters.
  • Do not hide from Firefighters. If they do not see or hear you, they cannot find you to rescue you.

The Control Room

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The Control Room of the Firefighters Survive Alive! Village is where the simulations are controlled. Controls for the hot doors, lights, smoke and special effects are operated from here. 

Lessons that are learned while visiting the Firefighters Survive Alive! Control Room

  • During your session today, you were never in any real danger. The heat and smoke were all simulated from our Control Room.
  • Firefighters from all over the city help with the educational sessions and have made the Firefighters Survive Alive! program a success.

The Indianapolis Firefighters Museum

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The Indianapolis Firefighters Museum is housed in old Fire Station #2, which was in service from 1871 until 1929. The station was one of four identical structures built in the late 1870's and was, for its time, the state of the art in fire house design. It remains the oldest fire station in Marion County and the only one of the four 1870 structures still standing. It currently houses turn of the century horse-drawn firefighting apparatuses on loan from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, courtesy of the Hulman family.

Lessons that are learned while visiting the Indianapolis Firefighters Museum

  • The horse-drawn chemical wagon is like a big Soda Acid fire extinguiser. Sodium Bicarbonate was dropped in the top hatch and the chemical reaction created pressure to charge the hose lines. It was used for quick attacks on small fire outbreaks.
  • The horse-drawn steam pumper was built in 1898. It is an American LaFrance type 3 Metropolitan.
  • The hand pumper was built in 1850 and probably was used in a small town or factory. Water was pumped by hand from streams, lakes and puddles for putting out fires.

Fallen Firefighters Memorial

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The Purpose of the Memorial

The Fallen Firefighters Memorial was created to honor and remember the lives of our fallen firefighters, brave public servants, whose love of life, dedication to duty, and loyalty to their fellow man required of them the ultimate sacrifice. For their unselfish offering, we are forever grateful.

The Description of the Memorial

This beautiful memorial of stone, metal, and brick is a permanent structure located at 448 Massachusetts Avenue in Indianapolis, Indiana. The names of the fallen adorn ascending columns, which culminate in a tower of limestone and bronze, bursting heavenward to give flight to the Phoenix - the mythical bird that rises from the ashes to symbolize rebirth and life renewed.

As the firefighter knows, only those who truly live are also fully prepared to die. To those who fight to preserve it, life holds a purpose that those whom they protect cannot fathom.

Lessons that are learned while visiting the Fallen Firefighters Memorial

  • Firefighters are courageous, caring public servants, who deserve our respect.
  • We are fortunate to live in a city where our lives and homes are protected by these brave men and women.
  • It is important to remember our fallen Firefighters.