Hanover Fire Department Awarded 2021 SAFE and Senior SAFE Grants

The Hanover Fire Department is pleased to announce that it has been awarded $7,172 through the Massachusetts Department of Fire Services SAFE and Senior SAFE Grant Program. 

The Student Awareness of Fire Education (SAFE) Program provides grants to local fire departments to teach fire and life safety to children in schools.  The program teaches students to recognize the dangers of fire and the fire hazards of tobacco products through 23 key fire safety behaviors taught in developmentally appropriate ways.  Fire and life safety is easy to combine with math, science, language arts, and health or physical education lessons, making it easy to collaborate with school teachers and the existing curriculum.  Since the SAFE Program began in 1996, child fire deaths have dropped significantly in Massachusetts.  Senior SAFE aims to reduce older adult fire deaths and injuries through fire and life safety education. 

These grant programs provide nearly all available funding for the Department to provide fire and life safety education for the entire year to some of the most vulnerable residents as part of our overall Community Risk Reduction Program.  The Program is a collaborative effort between the Hanover Fire Department, Hanover Public Schools, and the Hanover Council on Aging. 

For additional information, please contact our Fire and Life Safety Education Coordinator, Firefighter/Paramedic Eric Johnson, eric.johnson@hanover-ma.gov.