Two Brockport Central School District students received a special visit from the Monroe County Volunteer Firemen’s Association on February 2.
Association directors and contest committee co-chairs Alan Way and Mike Lapinksi stopped into the classrooms of seventh-grader Ryan Danielak and fifth-grader Danielle Jewell-Wolf to surprise them with prizes for winning the Monroe County Volunteer Firemen’s Association Fire Prevention Essay Contest.
The subject for this year’s contest, which was also the theme for the National Fire Prevention Administration’s Fire Prevention Week, was “Hear the Beep Where You Sleep: Every Bedroom Needs a Working Smoke Alarm.”
The association received nearly 1,000 contest entries from 43 schools in Monroe County. The essays were judged in two different categories based on grade level: fifth and sixth grade, and seventh and eighth grade. The top 10 essays were selected from each of the two categories.
In addition to the surprise visit from the Monroe County Firemen’s Association, the winners each received a trophy and a cash award.
The essay contest started more than 50 years ago to educate students in grades 5 through 8 on the importance of fire safety. Contest organizers say that even those who do not receive a prize are winners, as they learn valuable fire prevention information that they can carry with them for the rest of their lives.
