To improve safety in homes across the Las Vegas Valley, the City's Fire Department is proud to present the Great Safety Adventure Tour. The tour is a program of the Home Safety Council, whose mission is to create safer homes across the country. The tour provides an interactive field trip on wheels, which has been touring the country since 1999. The tour stops at elementary schools and Lowes stores across America to teach home safety lessons to more than one million parents and children.

 

The Great Safety Adventure, sponsored by Lowes, is about the size of a small house and unfolds from a semi-tractor trailer truck to form a 1,000 square-foot animated home. A team of trained home safety experts called Safety Rangers and the Home Safety Councils mascot, Rover the Home Safety Hound, lead the adventure. Their goal is to prevent the types of home related injuries that result nationally in 20,000 deaths and 21 million medical visits annually.

 

According to the Home Safety Council web site, www.homesafetycouncil.org , the Great Safety Adventure teaches home safety lessons to receptive young minds. The program encourages children to take the lessons they learn at school back to their parents so the whole family works together to improve home safety.

 

Having the Great Safety Adventure Tour here is not only good news for the City of North Las Vegas, but the whole Las Vegas Valley, North Las Vegas Fire Chief Al Gillespie said.

 

The City of North Las Vegas requested its visit in December and is pleased to announce the program will be in town from May 3 to May 17 at the following locations.

 

May 3

Lowes of North Las Vegas, #2721

2570 East Craig Road

North Las Vegas, NV 89030

 

May 10

Lowes NW Las Vegas, #1863

6050 West Craig Road

Las Vegas, NV 89130

 

May 17

Lowes of Summerlin, #0784

7550 West Washington

Las Vegas, NV 89128

 

For more information, please call Captain Cedric Williams at 633-1111.