Eighty-three students — the K-12 student body of North Daviess elementary and high school — exited the school building in excellent time, one minute and five seconds, during a fire drill held on Oct. 13. The drill was the first step in a series of lessons on Fire Prevention Safety Week.
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Area emergency workers, including the Jameson Fire Department, Lifeflight Eagle, Gallatin Fire Protection District Ladder Truck (Doug Hamilton), Daviess County Sheriff’s Department (Sgt. Larry Adams), Gallatin Ambulance, and Smokey the Bear (played by Ethan Rhoades, Jameson) attended the event. Each emergency department spoke to the students and explained their part in fire safety, and they showed the students their emergency vehicles.
Lifeflight Eagle was a special attraction to the students. The helicopter landed in the ball field at the school with three crew members: Gary Doak, pilot; Lachelle Hatcher, nurse; and Tim Ayers, paramedic.
Three members of the Jameson Fire Department were on hand: Jared Hogan, fire chief; Henry Rhoades, assistant fire chief; and Stacey Rhoades, volunteer firefighter. Jameson Fire typically has a volunteer crew of between five and six who answer fire calls. They have had eight local fire calls this year and several medical calls.
After the field demonstrations, the elementary students attended a seminar in the school gym where they learned about exiting a house during a fire, how smoke detectors work, and how to stop-drop-roll.
Picture: North Daviess kindergarten, first and second graders are pictured with Lifeflight Eagle. Front row, Robert Prater, Draven Stevens, James Ross, Kenyon Affuso, Addison Morris; back row, Kayden Terry, Emma Newberry, Madeline Browning, Aaron Sybert, Natalie Linthicum, Gavin Sprague, Brooklyn Waterbury, Kathleen Ross, Emma Waterbury, Chance Brown, Jaston Affuso. Gary Doak, left, is the pilot; Lachelle Hatcher is the nurse; and Tim Ayers, right, is the paramedic.