{"id":34181,"date":"2014-05-05T21:22:21","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T11:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=34181"},"modified":"2014-05-05T21:22:21","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T11:22:21","slug":"guam-firefighters-share-career-experiences-with-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/guam-firefighters-share-career-experiences-with-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Guam firefighters share career experiences with students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BARRIGADA, Guam<\/strong>\u2014Firefighters and fire inspectors from U.S. Naval Base Guam Fire and Emergency Services met with students from Pedro C. Lujan Elementary School in Barrigada to discuss fire safety and share their experiences during the school\u2019s career day on April 30.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-34181 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/guam-firefighters-share-career-experiences-with-students\/140430-n-he884-011\/'>140430-N-HE884-011<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-34183'>\n\t\t\t\tFire Inspectors Anthony Lizama, left, and Michael Borja, of U.S. Naval Base Guam Fire and Emergency Services, discuss fire prevention with students during career day at Pedro C. Lujan Elementary School in Barrigada on April 30. (Jesse Leon Guerrero)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/guam-firefighters-share-career-experiences-with-students\/140430-n-he884-028\/'>140430-N-HE884-028<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-34184'>\n\t\t\t\tFirefighter George Hernandez, of U.S. Naval Base Guam Fire and Emergency Services, explains the capabilities and features of a Navy fire truck to students during career day at Pedro C. Lujan Elementary School in Barrigada on April 30. (Jesse Leon Guerrero)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/guam-firefighters-share-career-experiences-with-students\/140430-n-he884-035\/'>140430-N-HE884-035<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-34185'>\n\t\t\t\tFire Inspector Anthony Lizama, of U.S. Naval Base Guam Fire and Emergency Services, talks to students about fire prevention with the help of the department\u2019s mascot Sparky during career day at Pedro C. Lujan Elementary School in Barrigada on April 30. (Jesse Leon Guerrero)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/guam-firefighters-share-career-experiences-with-students\/140430-n-he884-045\/'>140430-N-HE884-045<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-34186'>\n\t\t\t\tPersonnel from U.S. Naval Base Guam Fire and Emergency Services display a fire truck to promote education and fire safety during career day at Pedro C. Lujan Elementary School in Barrigada on April 30. (Jesse Leon Guerrero)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just great to come out here and represent the fire department with the Navy and educate the kids on what fire is all about, that it\u2019s dangerous,\u201d said Fire Inspector Anthony Lizama. \u201cIf we start them out early, teaching them, educating them about fire then they\u2019ll be safer as they get older.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lizama and his fellow firefighters gave the children important tips on fire prevention and allowed them the opportunity to see a fire truck up close and interact with NBG\u2019s Fire and Emergency Services mascot Sparky.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe take-away from this is we hope they\u2019ll educate themselves more [about fire prevention] and become firefighters,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s always good to get out into the community to interact to show the camaraderie between the local and federal side.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Career day coordinator Vera Elliott thanked firefighters for meeting with students and explaining what they do to help keep Navy installations and the public safe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have been part of our school\u2019s career day for the past four years and they\u2019ve been a wonderful agency, always willing to participate and help out our kids,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Elliott added that career day is a meaningful program as it shows different types of opportunities available and can spark interest in students as young as kindergartners.<em> <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BARRIGADA, Guam\u2014Firefighters and fire inspectors from U.S. Naval Base Guam Fire and Emergency Services met&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":34183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[54,51,163],"class_list":["post-34181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-agency","tag-guam","tag-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}