October 8, 2025 • 14 mins
This is the complete interview with Blue Ash firefighter/medic Sam Mirizzi, discussing fire safety in the home. The biggest cause they see in their community, with tips on how to keep your family safe.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This week on iHeart Sense, we had a particular run
here where somebody did that trying to build their own
e scooter and it actually caught on fire.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Lithium ion batteries you've heard of them, They're everywhere computers, phones,
e bikes and many more modern conveniences. Well, during Fire
Prevention Week, we're talking about this newer danger for fire
and the home and businesses. My guest today is Sam Marizzi,
a firefighter medic in Blue Ash. He explains why lithium
ion batteries can be dangerous, what to do to prevent it,
(00:31):
and tell you about their open house coming up on
Tuesday at the Firehouse and Blue Ash, where the whole
family can learn about the profession, experience being in a
fire truck, and enjoy lots of other activities to promote
fire safety and later.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Our mission is to accelerate careers in construction.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
While also helping to keep waste out of the landfill.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
And we all know that finding a good paying job
can be difficult, so for careers in construction month here
in October, my guests are here to show you a
way to get into the construction trades through the social
enterprise called building value. It's a program supported by Easter
Seals Redwood, helping try Staters build sustainable careers while addressing
the growing demand for skilled construction.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Workers in our area.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Whether it's your first job or a change in career,
we have the information that could get you where you
want to be.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
No On, iHeart Cinsey with Sandy Collins.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
All right, we're going to get to my first guest today.
One of the true heroes in the Try State, a
firefighter with the Blue Ash Fire Department. He's also a medic,
Sam Murrasy, Sam, are.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
You at work right now?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
I am at work.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Yes, Well, if the bell goes off, we'll see you later.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I got us covered for the next twenty minutes the
other station covering our call, so we should be good
for the duration of our interview here.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
So well, that's good. I appreciate you taking the time.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I wanted to talk about the fire Prevention Week because
not only is important, but also you kind of focusing
on the lithium ion batteries and I have a lot
of questions about those and so how to keep our
folks safe. Plus part of the Fire Prevention Week, you
guys do your open house, so there's a lot of
fun things that are going to be available for just
(02:14):
about everybody in the family if you want to come
out and we'll tell you all about that. Open house
is coming up in October. I see that you were
Firefighter of the Year last year.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
I was, yeah, it was an exciting accomplishment. You know,
I didn't know that was coming. We were I think
we were doing a flag disposal ceremony for some boy
Scout troops. The Tian chief text me, He's like, hey,
come up to my office real quick. And you know,
you never want to get one of those tasks because
you're like it could either be, you know, good or bad.
But you know, I went up there and my two
(02:45):
lieutenants and my battalion in there, and they told me
I was going to be a Firefighter of the Year.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
So I was like, that's an awesome accomplishment.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
So it absolutely is. Lissie.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
You've been in the fire service for about eight years
at this point, eight and a half.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Something like that.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Yeah, yeah, correct, So you're the.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Official party planner.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
I can't take all the credit for it, but I think,
you know, I do a good job at you know,
Divvy and tasks up to.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Get to get what we need done for the open house.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Though, the topic is lithium ion batteries in your home.
What are you telling residents about lithium ion batteries in
their home?
Speaker 1 (03:22):
You know, as you see in the news recently, you know,
it's it's been a hot topic with the scooters, the
e bikes. Just I think the issue is as people
are leaving them plugged in for too long, so those
batteries get overheated. And what happens is is those lithium
ion batteries kind of expand, and then if they expand
(03:42):
and one of them goes off, it's kind of what
we call.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
A thermal runaway.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
So once one goes off, they all start to go off,
and it's kind of looks like a big firework that
goes off when they're all, you know, going off, So
it's kind of crazy to see, to be honest.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
You know, if you.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
See your phone or any particular device that uses a
lithium ion battery, if it looks like it's thicker, like
if your phone, you know, how it's flat, If it
looks like it's bulging, maybe remove it from your house
because that's indicative.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Of the battery going bad.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
We're telling people to use proper chargers and not get
any lithium my own batteries, you know.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Off the third market.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
We had a particular run here where somebody did that
trying to build their own e scooter and it actually
caught on fire and luckily they were able to get
it out of their garage in time. But you know,
it's just stuff like that that we have to preach
to the community, you know, about safe practices with the
lithium I own batteries too. And another thing too is
(04:44):
is proper disposal of these batteries. Blue Ash actually accept
you know, old or damaged lithium ion batteries, So if
anybody has damaged batteries or just old ones around the house,
they can feel free to bring them up to you know,
our station. But as you see, like runkies having a
big issue where people are thrown these away in the
(05:05):
trash and you know they're catching their you know, garbage
trucks on fire or you know, I think there was
recently a fire at Runky.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
I don't know if that was a cause.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
What is actually happening If they're not being charged at
that point, how would a lithium ion battery cause the
trash to catch fire.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
So like if you know, you throw one away and
say it gets thrown into a trash truck, the compactation
of it or just you know, the damaging of the
actual battery can just set these things off. And like
I said, if one of them goes, then that whole
thing goes.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
If there's multi of them, so my goodness.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
So don't put your batteries in the trash. Can take
them to a blue ash, or if you're in a
different community and you can't get there, contact your own
fire department and see where you can drop that off
and do it safely. So they catch fire while they're charging.
When it's spontaneous, it's probably because or seemingly spontaneo is
because there's some damage.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
To the battery. Correct, Yes, okay, all right, well that's
good to know.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
So if you have a what these scooters, these these
bikes are electric bike.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Scooter, it's e scooters, it's it's e bikes, it's your
cell phones, Apple watches, you know something, milan equipment. I
would say pretty much anything with the battery nowadays is
most likely lifting on my ion battery. So I would
just always say be cautious. You know, if it feels
really really hot or like abnormally hots, it probably will
(06:31):
get a little hot one charging. But you know, if
you if you're charging it and you just walk by
and it feels abnormally hot, maybe take it off and
you know, put it outside so it's not inside, and
you know, maybe get a new one.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
So let it cool. Do so well.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
The other part of that too is you know people think,
like go to the store and come back. You know,
it's probably not a good idea to charge the scooter
and leave the house.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Yeah, it's not.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
I mean you probably see I'm going to use New
York City Fire Department as like a reference. They have
a big problem with people leaving their e scooters or
e bikes plugged in, and a lot of their fires
and like their apartments or whatever have been these lithium
ion e bikes whatever you want to call it, you
(07:19):
know fires.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
So if you leave the house.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
It's probably a good idea if you do have one
of these lithium ion batteries charging, to just go ahead
and maybe unplug it that a way, it's not receiving
any energy or charging or whatnot.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
I'm thinking now too, with laptops, because I keep I
have a laptop and I just keep it plugged in
on the desk oftentimes not because I'm trying to charge it.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
It's just kind of it feels like that's just being
able to use it and it's on. So you're saying
that's not a good idea either.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Yeah, so I'm guilty as charge of doing the same thing.
I'm actually doing it right now as we speak, but
you know, I'm obviously with it. But yeah, if you
can not have your computer charging, just like kind of
like your phone, you know, if it's fully charged, maybe
unplug it from that charger and unplug it from the wall,
and then when you need to charge it, charge it.
(08:11):
And you know, I would recommend if you are home,
you can have it plugged in, but if you leave
or anything like that for an extended period of time,
I would recommend unplugging.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Like your computers or like any of the other.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Items we talked about, just to err on the side
of crossing, just because I feel like a lot of
times with these Lithian batteries, they're so random and spontaneous
when they do fail.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
So, yeah, if you just joined us, I'm speaking with
the firefighter and paramedic from Blue Ash, Sam and Rizzi,
and he is hosting an open house at the fire
department October seventh there on Kenwood Road.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
It's the North Fire Station.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Let's talk about fire for a minute. What are the
most common causes of fires in your community?
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Normally Number one is probably unattended food on the stove.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
We get a lot of those.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
And then probably during the summertime fall time, it's unattended
grills or you know, they leave them on their deck
and they get too hot and it gets the wood
all hot and catches the decks on fire. So I
would say those are probably two of the biggest ones. Luckily,
we haven't had a lot of lithium I on fires,
so I would say that that isn't one of the
(09:28):
main causes, but I would say it's probably on the uptick.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
So do those fire blankets really work?
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Yeah, so I don't personally know too much about them,
but I would say if you have more fire protection
in your house, the better. So if you have one
of those and a fire extinguisher, you're you're way ahead
of the game.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
What about those those fireballs You throw them into a
room and they just burst and then.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
I've seen those.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
I believe I've seen those used over in Europe or
UK or somewhere. So again, I'm not too familiar with those,
but they do seem like they work well when I've
seen the videos.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Yeah, no kidding, I don't know why they're not more popular.
I think we should.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
I mean, heck, it might even help us out a
little bit. Show up, throw one of those in there, right,
let it do its thing while you're getting ready.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
To go, right right right.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
What do you teach children about fire? They're always interested
in it. I had a daughter we had to deal with,
Like even children with autism are especially drawn to sensory
stimulation like water, which has been a terrible outcome for
some of these young kids.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
And then also fire. They like the fire stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
What thoughts can you share about that for parents?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Yeah, I would say, teach them if they know if
it's hot or not, or if it's if you have
a lot of like lighters, or teach them not to
mess with the stove and stuff like that. If they
can do any of that, you know, something is better
than nothing.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
I know sometimes it's.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
A little harder for that group, but I would say
if they are able to understand you know what hot is,
or you know what fire is, or you know not
to mess with a lighter or match. Then I would say,
you know, you're doing pretty good if you can, you know,
get them to understand that.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
My daughter was in Girl Scouts and I think she
was in elementary school, and I was a little shocked
that part of her Girl Scout training was to light matches,
and I had mixed feelings about it. He didn't interfere
and let them, let them do their thing, because I
figure they probably have some knowledge that it's helpful to
show them how to do it and worry about the
(11:38):
dangers and teach them about it rather than just ignoring
it and telling them don't touch.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Yeah, that is that a good idea anythink?
Speaker 3 (11:45):
I think if you.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Teach it safely and you know, their Scout leaders reiterate
this is what it's used for, and this is what
it is not used for, they can you know, just
reiterate that, hey, this is used for, you know, out
in the woods or lighting a fire, and to not
use these in a home. Because a lot of the
times with younger kids and we're shown up to a fire,
(12:10):
sometimes it's them because they're playing with matchers, or they're
playing with a lighter and they catch their bed on fire.
So I think, you know, if the Scout leaders are
doing a great job at teaching them what to do
and not to do with these, then absolutely I think
it's an appropriate thing, just as long as they're.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
You know, let's talk about the Blue Ash Fire Department
open house. When where and tell us all about the
fun things you got planned.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Yeah, absolutely so.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Our open house will take place on Tuesday, October seventh
from five to seven thirty pm at the North Fire Station,
which is Station thirteen in Blue Ash. It's one zero
six four seven. Come with road open to all ages.
We have you know, a ton of fun activities planned.
The kids can come and look at the trucks, do
(12:55):
a station tour, can spray a fire hose until like
a little you know, miniature prop we have built with
like little fire in the window so they can hit
it and they'll knock down. We also have a sparky
he'll be walking around so they can get pictures with that.
I believe there's an obstacle course, and then just throughout
(13:16):
the night we also offer free food and beverages while
it lasts and then to wrap up the night, we
always do a fire prevention talk along with We build
a big, little big burn prop in the back, so
we usually kind of mock that up to whatever the
Fire Prevention Week theme is, and you know, we'll do
(13:36):
a little fire demonstration and show show off the firefighting
gear and have a couple of them spray water on
the fire to kind of, you know, show the community
how we how we operate. So it's a fun night.
It doesn't have to be the Blue Ashy community. I mean,
it's open to anybody, so we're always happy to see
everybody there, so it's always a good time.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Sam Marisi, thank you so much for being here. We'll
see on October seventh at the open house.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
My pleasure. They thank you. Have a good day and if.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
You'd like to go to the open house coming up
on Tuesday, here's some information for you to be in
the Blue ash Fire Department open house the North Fire
Station at one oh six four seven Kenwood Road. It
starts at five till seven thirty pm this Tuesday, promoting
Fire Prevention Week. You've got your answers for lithium ion,
battery safety and so much more around the house, plus
(14:21):
your kids are going to love the firefighters and the
fire trucks coming up.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
I definitely know more about tools now I've been a
year before. Hang on, this is iHeart Cincy.
This week on iHeart Sense, we had a particular run
here where somebody did that trying to build their own
e scooter and it actually caught on fire.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Lithium ion batteries you've heard of them, They're everywhere computers, phones,
e bikes and many more modern conveniences. Well, during Fire
Prevention Week, we're talking about this newer danger for fire
and the home and businesses. My guest today is Sam Marizzi,
a firefighter medic in Blue Ash. He explains why lithium
ion batteries can be dangerous, what to do to prevent it,
(00:31):
and tell you about their open house coming up on
Tuesday at the Firehouse and Blue Ash, where the whole
family can learn about the profession, experience being in a
fire truck, and enjoy lots of other activities to promote
fire safety and later.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Our mission is to accelerate careers in construction.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
While also helping to keep waste out of the landfill.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
And we all know that finding a good paying job
can be difficult, so for careers in construction month here
in October, my guests are here to show you a
way to get into the construction trades through the social
enterprise called building value. It's a program supported by Easter
Seals Redwood, helping try Staters build sustainable careers while addressing
the growing demand for skilled construction.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Workers in our area.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Whether it's your first job or a change in career,
we have the information that could get you where you
want to be.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
No On, iHeart Cinsey with Sandy Collins.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
All right, we're going to get to my first guest today.
One of the true heroes in the Try State, a
firefighter with the Blue Ash Fire Department. He's also a medic,
Sam Murrasy, Sam, are.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
You at work right now?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
I am at work.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Yes, Well, if the bell goes off, we'll see you later.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I got us covered for the next twenty minutes the
other station covering our call, so we should be good
for the duration of our interview here.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
So well, that's good. I appreciate you taking the time.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I wanted to talk about the fire Prevention Week because
not only is important, but also you kind of focusing
on the lithium ion batteries and I have a lot
of questions about those and so how to keep our
folks safe. Plus part of the Fire Prevention Week, you
guys do your open house, so there's a lot of
fun things that are going to be available for just
(02:14):
about everybody in the family if you want to come
out and we'll tell you all about that. Open house
is coming up in October. I see that you were
Firefighter of the Year last year.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
I was, yeah, it was an exciting accomplishment. You know,
I didn't know that was coming. We were I think
we were doing a flag disposal ceremony for some boy
Scout troops. The Tian chief text me, He's like, hey,
come up to my office real quick. And you know,
you never want to get one of those tasks because
you're like it could either be, you know, good or bad.
But you know, I went up there and my two
(02:45):
lieutenants and my battalion in there, and they told me
I was going to be a Firefighter of the Year.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
So I was like, that's an awesome accomplishment.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
So it absolutely is. Lissie.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
You've been in the fire service for about eight years
at this point, eight and a half.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Something like that.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Yeah, yeah, correct, So you're the.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Official party planner.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
I can't take all the credit for it, but I think,
you know, I do a good job at you know,
Divvy and tasks up to.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Get to get what we need done for the open house.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Though, the topic is lithium ion batteries in your home.
What are you telling residents about lithium ion batteries in
their home?
Speaker 1 (03:22):
You know, as you see in the news recently, you know,
it's it's been a hot topic with the scooters, the
e bikes. Just I think the issue is as people
are leaving them plugged in for too long, so those
batteries get overheated. And what happens is is those lithium
ion batteries kind of expand, and then if they expand
(03:42):
and one of them goes off, it's kind of what
we call.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
A thermal runaway.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
So once one goes off, they all start to go off,
and it's kind of looks like a big firework that
goes off when they're all, you know, going off, So
it's kind of crazy to see, to be honest.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
You know, if you.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
See your phone or any particular device that uses a
lithium ion battery, if it looks like it's thicker, like
if your phone, you know, how it's flat, If it
looks like it's bulging, maybe remove it from your house
because that's indicative.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Of the battery going bad.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
We're telling people to use proper chargers and not get
any lithium my own batteries, you know.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Off the third market.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
We had a particular run here where somebody did that
trying to build their own e scooter and it actually
caught on fire and luckily they were able to get
it out of their garage in time. But you know,
it's just stuff like that that we have to preach
to the community, you know, about safe practices with the
lithium I own batteries too. And another thing too is
(04:44):
is proper disposal of these batteries. Blue Ash actually accept
you know, old or damaged lithium ion batteries, So if
anybody has damaged batteries or just old ones around the house,
they can feel free to bring them up to you know,
our station. But as you see, like runkies having a
big issue where people are thrown these away in the
(05:05):
trash and you know they're catching their you know, garbage
trucks on fire or you know, I think there was
recently a fire at Runky.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
I don't know if that was a cause.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
What is actually happening If they're not being charged at
that point, how would a lithium ion battery cause the
trash to catch fire.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
So like if you know, you throw one away and
say it gets thrown into a trash truck, the compactation
of it or just you know, the damaging of the
actual battery can just set these things off. And like
I said, if one of them goes, then that whole
thing goes.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
If there's multi of them, so my goodness.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
So don't put your batteries in the trash. Can take
them to a blue ash, or if you're in a
different community and you can't get there, contact your own
fire department and see where you can drop that off
and do it safely. So they catch fire while they're charging.
When it's spontaneous, it's probably because or seemingly spontaneo is
because there's some damage.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
To the battery. Correct, Yes, okay, all right, well that's
good to know.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
So if you have a what these scooters, these these
bikes are electric bike.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Scooter, it's e scooters, it's it's e bikes, it's your
cell phones, Apple watches, you know something, milan equipment. I
would say pretty much anything with the battery nowadays is
most likely lifting on my ion battery. So I would
just always say be cautious. You know, if it feels
really really hot or like abnormally hots, it probably will
(06:31):
get a little hot one charging. But you know, if
you if you're charging it and you just walk by
and it feels abnormally hot, maybe take it off and
you know, put it outside so it's not inside, and
you know, maybe get a new one.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
So let it cool. Do so well.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
The other part of that too is you know people think,
like go to the store and come back. You know,
it's probably not a good idea to charge the scooter
and leave the house.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Yeah, it's not.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
I mean you probably see I'm going to use New
York City Fire Department as like a reference. They have
a big problem with people leaving their e scooters or
e bikes plugged in, and a lot of their fires
and like their apartments or whatever have been these lithium
ion e bikes whatever you want to call it, you
(07:19):
know fires.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
So if you leave the house.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
It's probably a good idea if you do have one
of these lithium ion batteries charging, to just go ahead
and maybe unplug it that a way, it's not receiving
any energy or charging or whatnot.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
I'm thinking now too, with laptops, because I keep I
have a laptop and I just keep it plugged in
on the desk oftentimes not because I'm trying to charge it.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
It's just kind of it feels like that's just being
able to use it and it's on. So you're saying
that's not a good idea either.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Yeah, so I'm guilty as charge of doing the same thing.
I'm actually doing it right now as we speak, but
you know, I'm obviously with it. But yeah, if you
can not have your computer charging, just like kind of
like your phone, you know, if it's fully charged, maybe
unplug it from that charger and unplug it from the wall,
and then when you need to charge it, charge it.
(08:11):
And you know, I would recommend if you are home,
you can have it plugged in, but if you leave
or anything like that for an extended period of time,
I would recommend unplugging.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Like your computers or like any of the other.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Items we talked about, just to err on the side
of crossing, just because I feel like a lot of
times with these Lithian batteries, they're so random and spontaneous
when they do fail.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
So, yeah, if you just joined us, I'm speaking with
the firefighter and paramedic from Blue Ash, Sam and Rizzi,
and he is hosting an open house at the fire
department October seventh there on Kenwood Road.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
It's the North Fire Station.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Let's talk about fire for a minute. What are the
most common causes of fires in your community?
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Normally Number one is probably unattended food on the stove.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
We get a lot of those.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
And then probably during the summertime fall time, it's unattended
grills or you know, they leave them on their deck
and they get too hot and it gets the wood
all hot and catches the decks on fire. So I
would say those are probably two of the biggest ones. Luckily,
we haven't had a lot of lithium I on fires,
so I would say that that isn't one of the
(09:28):
main causes, but I would say it's probably on the uptick.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
So do those fire blankets really work?
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Yeah, so I don't personally know too much about them,
but I would say if you have more fire protection
in your house, the better. So if you have one
of those and a fire extinguisher, you're you're way ahead
of the game.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
What about those those fireballs You throw them into a
room and they just burst and then.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
I've seen those.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
I believe I've seen those used over in Europe or
UK or somewhere. So again, I'm not too familiar with those,
but they do seem like they work well when I've
seen the videos.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Yeah, no kidding, I don't know why they're not more popular.
I think we should.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
I mean, heck, it might even help us out a
little bit. Show up, throw one of those in there, right,
let it do its thing while you're getting ready.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
To go, right right right.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
What do you teach children about fire? They're always interested
in it. I had a daughter we had to deal with,
Like even children with autism are especially drawn to sensory
stimulation like water, which has been a terrible outcome for
some of these young kids.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
And then also fire. They like the fire stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
What thoughts can you share about that for parents?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Yeah, I would say, teach them if they know if
it's hot or not, or if it's if you have
a lot of like lighters, or teach them not to
mess with the stove and stuff like that. If they
can do any of that, you know, something is better
than nothing.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
I know sometimes it's.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
A little harder for that group, but I would say
if they are able to understand you know what hot is,
or you know what fire is, or you know not
to mess with a lighter or match. Then I would say,
you know, you're doing pretty good if you can, you know,
get them to understand that.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
My daughter was in Girl Scouts and I think she
was in elementary school, and I was a little shocked
that part of her Girl Scout training was to light matches,
and I had mixed feelings about it. He didn't interfere
and let them, let them do their thing, because I
figure they probably have some knowledge that it's helpful to
show them how to do it and worry about the
(11:38):
dangers and teach them about it rather than just ignoring
it and telling them don't touch.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Yeah, that is that a good idea anythink?
Speaker 3 (11:45):
I think if you.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Teach it safely and you know, their Scout leaders reiterate
this is what it's used for, and this is what
it is not used for, they can you know, just
reiterate that, hey, this is used for, you know, out
in the woods or lighting a fire, and to not
use these in a home. Because a lot of the
times with younger kids and we're shown up to a fire,
(12:10):
sometimes it's them because they're playing with matchers, or they're
playing with a lighter and they catch their bed on fire.
So I think, you know, if the Scout leaders are
doing a great job at teaching them what to do
and not to do with these, then absolutely I think
it's an appropriate thing, just as long as they're.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
You know, let's talk about the Blue Ash Fire Department
open house. When where and tell us all about the
fun things you got planned.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Yeah, absolutely so.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Our open house will take place on Tuesday, October seventh
from five to seven thirty pm at the North Fire Station,
which is Station thirteen in Blue Ash. It's one zero
six four seven. Come with road open to all ages.
We have you know, a ton of fun activities planned.
The kids can come and look at the trucks, do
(12:55):
a station tour, can spray a fire hose until like
a little you know, miniature prop we have built with
like little fire in the window so they can hit
it and they'll knock down. We also have a sparky
he'll be walking around so they can get pictures with that.
I believe there's an obstacle course, and then just throughout
(13:16):
the night we also offer free food and beverages while
it lasts and then to wrap up the night, we
always do a fire prevention talk along with We build
a big, little big burn prop in the back, so
we usually kind of mock that up to whatever the
Fire Prevention Week theme is, and you know, we'll do
(13:36):
a little fire demonstration and show show off the firefighting
gear and have a couple of them spray water on
the fire to kind of, you know, show the community
how we how we operate. So it's a fun night.
It doesn't have to be the Blue Ashy community. I mean,
it's open to anybody, so we're always happy to see
everybody there, so it's always a good time.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Sam Marisi, thank you so much for being here. We'll
see on October seventh at the open house.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
My pleasure. They thank you. Have a good day and if.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
You'd like to go to the open house coming up
on Tuesday, here's some information for you to be in
the Blue ash Fire Department open house the North Fire
Station at one oh six four seven Kenwood Road. It
starts at five till seven thirty pm this Tuesday, promoting
Fire Prevention Week. You've got your answers for lithium ion,
battery safety and so much more around the house, plus
(14:21):
your kids are going to love the firefighters and the
fire trucks coming up.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
I definitely know more about tools now I've been a
year before. Hang on, this is iHeart Cincy.
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