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, building a team, creating partnerships, overcoming mental obstacles, and crunching fire prevention data, this podcast is the perfect way to begin a fire prevention initiative and take the first step toward eliminating cooking fires in your city. 

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 prevention - comes from the awareness that it can truly save lives, both among firefighters and among some of the most vulnerable residents in Sandusky - those who live in assisted housing.  And, as Steve likes to stress, being proactive when it comes to cooking fire prevention can save property owners and managers tremendous amounts of money - often in unexpected ways.

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 careers keeping people safe from fire.  He spent 20 years with the United States Air Force Fire Protection, 10 years with Delaware’s Office of State Fire Marshall, and today is the University of Delaware’s Fire Protection Engineer/Fire Marshal.  It’s an impressive understanding of fire safety and fire prevention for everyone from soldiers to students.

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 Member of the IAFC; Past President of the International Fire Marshal’s Association; Past Project Manager of Vision 20/20; author of “Fire Prevention Organization & Management”; and winner of a slew of awards including the Dr. Anne Phillips award for leadership in fire and life safety education from the Congressional Fire Services Institute. 

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 and cooking fire safety specifically.