{"id":279868,"date":"2026-04-22T06:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T06:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/279868\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T06:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T06:43:09","slug":"students-learn-and-prepare-at-county-fire-safety-event-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/279868\/","title":{"rendered":"Students Learn and Prepare at County Fire Safety Event | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\tReading Time:   2 minutes<\/p>\n<p>San Diego County Fire brought hands-on emergency preparedness to Oak Grove Middle School in Jamul with an interactive safety fair.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-220960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ListosStarterGoKit-350x263.jpg\" alt=\"Juvenile starter go-bag \" width=\"350\" height=\"263\"  \/>Students guessed the cost of evacuation go-bag items, with one winner from each grade earning a LED night light and flashlight.<\/p>\n<p>Sixty students who turned in home fire escape plans received a youth starter go\u2011bag, said County Fire\u2019s Jessica Martinez. The event was funded by Listos California and SDG&amp;E.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was more than a safety fair. This was also a career fair,\u201d said Principal Minerva Salas. \u201cStudents met agencies who have a role in disasters and learned about the work they do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-220961\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/StudentExtinguisher-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Student learning how to use a fire extinguisher\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\"  \/>About 215 sixth-, seventh\u2011, and eighth\u2011grade students took part. They learned hands\u2011only CPR, disaster preparedness, kitchen safety, and how to use a fire extinguisher.<\/p>\n<p>County Fire\u2019s Community Risk Reduction team led students through 10 interactive stations. Agencies represented included CAL FIRE\/San Diego County Fire Protection District, the County Office of Emergency Services, the Sheriff\u2019s Department, County Fire\u2019s CERT team, the County Hazardous Materials Division, Rancho San Diego Library, the Burn Institute, the American Red <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-220962\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/OESCaptCal-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"County OES with Cal Fire's mascot.\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\"  \/>Cross, SDG&amp;E, the FBI, and I Love a Clean San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>Community involvement strengthens local resilience. Residents play a key role through preparedness, emergency planning, and defensible\u00a0space compliance. County Fire provides tools and education to help them stay safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reading Time: 2 minutes San Diego County Fire brought hands-on emergency preparedness to Oak Grove Middle School in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[17701,73269,120509,1492,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-279868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-alertsandiego","tag-county-fire","tag-emergency-prepardness","tag-public-safety","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}