Check out the story and video below. The West Midlands Fire Service spent around $8000 (US) for two rappers to create “The Fire Song”. Now it has some people thinking they spent too much.Some are citing frivolous spending in a slow economy.
I think that $8000 is a drop in the bucket. If any fire department wants to get down to spending there are so many other things to point fingers at.
The song may not be extremely appealing to me, but it does have a good message and I think it should be used as much as possible. The song already has over 7000 views on youtube. Let’s just hope they do some ideal marketing on this one to get their moneys worth!
As for the product, production, song, and subsequent video I think they got their moneys worth!
WEST MIDLANDS, England — A city councillor has claimed a rap song highlighting the importance of fire safety was too expensive.
West Midlands Fire Service has spent pounds 5,000 — almost $8,000 — of taxpayers money on The Fire Song which it hopes will become an internet hit.
It cost a total of pounds 10,000 to produce with the other half raised through grants.
Birmingham-based Corey ‘SMan’ Campbell was joined by fellow rapper Nigel Hinds on the safety-conscious song. Film director Daniel Alexander produced the video.
42 children have died in a day care fire in Mexico and many others are hospitalized. Many are pointing to safety rules as being the reasons for the possibility for such tragedies as this to occur. Mexico is not a stranger to such fire related tragedies either:
Similar problems have been blamed for previous disaster in Mexico: In 2000, a fire killed 21 people at a glitzy Mexico City disco that only had one available exit, lacked smoke detectors and did not have enough fire extinguishers. Last year, 12 people died when police raiding a Mexico city nightclub blocked the overcrowded club’s lone working exit, creating a deadly stampede. The emergency exits had been blocked.
I thought at first I would reference this story to discuss firefighters worse calls. You know the ones that hit you in the gut and stay with you the rest of your career. However, I decided instead to speak about safety initiatives.
For many years, leaders in the fire service have been hounding Local, State, and Federal Politicians to create regulations for residential sprinklers. More importantly, firefighters are attempting to make residential sprinklers mandatory or at least offer incentives for utilization of residential sprinklers.
Fire Codes have required sprinklers in Commercial buildings and multi-family housing for some time. There are some localities which require residential sprinklers or offer incentives, but they are few and far between.
Firefighters usually don’t bother with asking for things that are unnecessary or not warranted. Over the course of fire history, firefighters have battled some very deadly fires. These fires were tragic but fortunately served as learning experiences for the U.S. These fires were used as case studies to create and/or improve life saving measures, building codes, fire codes, and other regulations. It is hard to correctly estimate how many lives have been saved by learning from mistakes.
Tragedies such as the one mentioned above happen a lot less often in the U.S. because of our regulations. This is a good thing. That is why firefighters are fighting harder than ever for residential sprinklers.
More firefighters and civilians die in residential fires than other fires.
View the links below to check out more about residential sprinklers:
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