Cooking Fire Prevention Is Better Podcast

In a series of live interviews, we hear from CRR champions across the United States on the different, innovative ways they have implemented the SmartBurner cooking fire prevention initiative. They share their experiences along with some tips to make starting your own cooking fire CRR initiative possible with their "copy + paste" toolkit.  Covering the struggles of securing funding, build...

Steve Rucker is the Fire Marshal for Sandusky, Ohio.  It's a role that he's had for nearly 7 years now.  Although, Steve has been with the Sandusky Fire Department for more than 18 years.  That's nearly two decades of service, with the last ten years increasingly focused on Community Risk Reduction or CRR.  Steve's professional commitment to CRR - specifically cooking fire prev...

If you operate a multi-family apartment building, a seniors complex, an affordable housing unit, and have even a passing interest in cooking fire safety, you should spend 20 minutes listening to this conversation with Kevin McSweeney.  If you work in the fire service, the military or College and University space, this is a must listen to conversation.  Kevin McSweeney has had three separate career...

SmartBurner™ saves lives and property by helping to prevent cooking fires from happening in the first place.  It easily replaces electric coil elements and prevents the burner from reaching the temperature at which most cooking oils and other household items ignite. SmartBurner has been installed in more than 300,000 homes and apartments without a single reported cooking fire.

Meet Jim Crawford and learn from an incredible career spent advocating for fire safety and prevention… What does an incredible career sound like?  Like this:  Retired Fire Marshal and Deputy Chief of the Vancouver Fire Department in Washington State; a member of the NFPA technical committee; former member of the Standards Council for the NFPA; a Fellow of the Institution of Fire Engineers; a Life...

Welcome to our first podcast. Our purpose will be to share interesting stories, and the people behind them, that are connected to the mission of cooking fire prevention.  We are delighted that our first podcast showcases the work of Lt. Annemarie Pickett of the Worcester Fire Department.  Lt. Pickett, as some of you may know, is a remarkable champion for Community Risk Reduction (CRR) generally an...