Fire/SAR Lieutenant Bjorn Stolpe, dressed in bunker gear, sits alongside Fire Marshal Ryan Welde while teaching fire safety to a group of kindergarteners.
Stedman Elementary School students got an education in fire safety last week from members of the Petersburg Volunteer Fire Department who visited the school to give demonstrations and show instructional videos.
The Learn Not to Burn program has been on hiatus for the last couple of years because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Students were able to visit the fire station for some instruction last year, but this was the first time since the pandemic that PVFD members have been back in the school as part of the program.
This year students learned about stop, drop, and roll, smoke detectors, how fast a...
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