Herculaneum Fire Department's 
Car Seat and Safety Inspections

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.