We at Firefighter Dan™ hope the new year is treating you well. We are on our way to producing our first animated Firefighter Dan’s Safety Tips. The business side of things is getting taken care of, so you should be seeing a more regular stream of Firefighter Dan™ content. Please keep coming back for updates here on FireLife as well as FirefighterDan.com.
With the start of the new year, we wanted to do more than just animated safety tips, so we also create daily safety tip worksheets for our little cadets. Have a look at the first 14 days of 2012.
DAILY ILLUSTRATED SAFETY TIP WORKSHEETS
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Day 1: This year, make it a New Year’s resolution to install working smoke alarms throughout your home.
Day 2: Install smoke alarms on every level of your home, including the basement and outside every sleeping area.
Day 3: Test smoke alarms monthly by pushing the test button.
Day 4: Be sure to replace batteries in all smoke alarms at least once a year.
Day 5: REPLACE all smoke alarms when they are 10 years old.
Day 6: Be sure you know what sound your smoke alarm makes.
Day 7: Don’t install smoke alarms near windows, doors, ducts. It could affect how it works.
Day 8: Smoke rises, so mount the alarm on the ceiling or high on a wall.
Day 9: If the smoke alarm sounds during cooking, use the hush button if it has one. Open a door or window or fan the area to get air moving. DO NOT take the batteries out of the smoke alarm.
Day 10: In the kitchen, have a “kid free” zone at least three feet around the stove. Teach kids not to play in that area.
Day 11: When cooking, turn pot handles inward. Never leave a pot handle within reach of children.
Day 12: Store matches and lighters out of reach of children.
Day 13: Damaged cords to appliances can cause fires. They should be replaced immediately.
Day 14: Use oven mitts and/or pot holders when moving hot food.
IN PRODUCTION NEWS
We have done initial tests mixing animation and video. (See still below) You can see Firefighter Dan’s head in the top right hand corner of the video of aerial ladder truck. This is NOT the final look, but our tests have been incredibly positive! We shall be in production of our animated safety tips in the coming days.
Please keep coming back for updates here on FireLife as well as at FirefighterDan.com.
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ABOUT FIREFIRE DAN™
Firefighter Dan™ features a safety curriculum that helps kids 2-6 recognize, reduce and escape hazards while helping to develop numeracy, literacy, art, science, history, reasoning and citizenship. By utilizing all types of media: photographs, video, illustration, animation and an interactive format that creates viewer participation, Firefighter Dan™ will engage children to be confident, active, and helpful members of the community.
Firefighter Dan™ will be featuring Safety Tips and other content here on Firelife.com as well as on FirefighterDan.com. Each of our Safety Tips will be a short animation between 60 and 90 seconds. We believe by keeping the content in short bytesize chunks of information, a child will be able to better digest the information. In addition, we will be sharing ‘behind-the-scenes’ to The Firefighter Dan™ Show as we move forward in production.
Tim Saguinsin
Raised in Virginia Beach, Vriginia, Tim Saguinsin spent much of his childhood with a pencil and a paintbrush in hand. He continued on with his artistic endeavors attending the Maryland Institute-College of Art where he received his BFA in General Fine Arts in 1995.
After graduating, Tim traveled overseas to London, England where he transformed his talents of painting and sculpture to animation and graphics creating educational content. While in London, Tim co-founded re-Animate Educational Software producing over thirty awarding winning educational products. Returning to America in 2001, Tim took an Art Director position at k12, Inc. where he continues to educate through graphics and animation.
Tim also does freelance animation and graphics through Ricecooker Studios, LLC. He has done work for Zynga, Big Huge Games, Pearson Education UK, Sherston Software UK, the Black Eyed Peas, AARP, Redbox, Microsoft, and many others.
Tim is a certified Firefighter and volunteered at Nokesville Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department in Prince William County, Virginia, between 2004-2007. Tim is also certified in the state of New Jersey and is looking to get back into volunteering in addition to creating Firefighter Dan.™
Tim lives in New Jersey with his wife and two boys, who adore Firefighter Dan.™
