Fire Prevention Week

Every year there is a huge campaign at the end of October, where they talk about Forest Fires. They do this to help spread the awareness of forest fires, and help prevent them. In the past this was a huge event, where they would go to the schools and talk to the children all over the nation about forest fire prevention. This year was a very down year for the program and I haven’t seen those weekly commercials about stopping forest fires. The slogan: ”Only You can Prevent Forest Fires1,” was implanted in my head ever since I was a child. With that said, the recent events in California, where fires have been created in small forest areas, which is in the rural areas of the state. These fires could have been prevented if people played more attention to the climate change and how they live around wildlife. I know that some of the fires may have included as arson but it is the lack of knowledge about forest fires that leads them to spread into massive fires.

The media didn’t cover the prevention week like in the earlier years of my life. You would see the commercials on television every day for that month in that calendar year. There are usually events that the media would be promoting during that month of Forest Fire Prevention awareness. I saw the commercial only once and it was during Earth Day or something like that.

After that the media has been covering and over exposing Celebrities and murders as their headliners. The Britney Spears controversy gets more airplay than www. Smokey Bear . com.

I felt this is a huge concern because of the three forest fires this year alone in California, plus the added fact that environmentalist are stating that there is a global warming criteria in effect. Since the world is becoming more and more populated, this will mean that the turn out ratio of consumption will be greater. So take that into effect people will waste more, and more waste means; more liability to natural disasters. I am not sure if a forest fire can be labeled as a natural disaster but if we are not watching what we do, and if we don’t know about it. We can create a natural disaster just by not knowing the facts. I think the Forest Fire Prevent Week should be the only thing talked about with in the news media during the time spread in October/November.