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Herculaneum Fire Department's
Car Seat and Bike Safety Day
June 20, 2009
Need
help installing that dreaded car seat, would you like to have a
certified technician inspect your car seat installation or check
the seat for recalls? If so come to the Herculaneum Fire Department's
engine house on June 20, 2009 between 10:00 A.M. & 2:00 P.M.
to have a Child Safety Seat Technician help. In addition to installing
the child safety seat the technician's will also teach you how to
properly install the seat on your own. Often child safety seats
are moved from vehicle to vehicle, so we want to make sure you know
how to properly install the seats to keep your children safe! In
addition to Child Safety Seat Inspections/Installations members
of the Herculaneum Fire Department will have a helmet fitting station.
Children are encouraged to come to the fire house to be properly
fit tested for Bicycle Helmets. Often times children do not wear
Bicycle Helmets or if they are wearing helmets they do not fit properly.
One in seven children suffer head injuries in bicycle related crashes.
Every six hours a bicyclist is fatally injured. Non-helmeted riders
are 14 times more likely to be involved in a fatal crash than helmeted
riders. Wear a bicycle helmet to prevent serious head injuries.
Helmets will be available for $10.00. Crystal City Cyclery will
also be offering Bicycle Safety Inspections. Police Officers from
the Herculaneum Police Department will be finger printing children.
It is a parent’s worst nightmare—you turn your back
for a second and your child has disappeared. According to the National
Center for Missing & Exploited Children, the FBI’s National
Crime Information Center took 876,213 reports of missing persons
(adults and juveniles) in the year 2000. The FBI estimates that
some 85-90% of missing persons are juveniles which amounts to some
750,000 cases of missing children per year or 2,100 per day. Many
can be recovered with quick reporting by parents. One way to help
protect your child in the unimaginable event that they were to become
missing, is to have their fingerprints on file.
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