Big Walnut holds annual open house

By Rocki Huddleston -

On Sat­ur­day, Octo­ber 13th, the Big Wal­nut Joint Fire Dis­trict held their annual Fire Pre­ven­tion Week Open House.

Kids used a ther­mal imag­ing cam­era to find a fire­fighter in a sim­u­lated smoke filled room.

Mem­bers of the com­mu­nity were able to watch Deputy Brian New­some and his K-9 demon­strate a drug search on a car and the appre­hen­sion of a sus­pect. Mor­row County Hos­pi­tal was on hand to do free blood pres­sure checks and answer any ques­tion reguard­ing the hos­pi­tal. Ohio State High­way Patrol Offi­cers, along with Mor­row County Health Depart­ment, edu­cated peo­ple on the affects of drink­ing and dri­ving by wear­ing D.U.I. gog­gles and con­duct­ing a field sobri­ety test.

A Med­Flight heli­copter landed behind the fire­house dur­ing the open house.

Mem­bers of the Amer­i­can Red Cross — Mor­row County Chap­ter dis­played their new Mobile Com­mand vehi­cle that is used for dis­as­ter relief sit­u­a­tions such as; respond­ing to a house fire to help acco­mo­date the vic­tims who were burned out of their home or sup­ply­ing Emer­gency Respon­ders with food and drinks.

A Med Flight heli­copter was on scene of the open house to show what it is like to work inside of a med­ical heli­copter. BWJFD Fire­fight­ers demon­strated an auto extri­ca­tion on a car pro­vided by J & J Auto in Marengo. BWJFD also demon­strated what it would be like inside of a smoke filled room by fog­ging up the meet­ing room and let­ting the kids take the ther­mal imag­ing cam­era inside to find a firefighter.

We would like to THANK the agen­cies that were rep­re­sented at our Open House and the vis­i­tors that made our open house a suc­cess. For more pho­tos and up to date infor­ma­tion about the Big Wal­nut Joint Fire Dis­trict, please visit us on the web at http://www.bwjfd.org/.

Fire­fight­ers Micah Swan­son & Malachi Swan­son edu­cate chil­dren on fire safety.

Han­nah Swan­son demon­strated the OSHP sobri­ety field test while wear­ing the D.U.I. goggles.

K-9 Deputy Brian New­some demon­strated appre­hend­ing a suspect.

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