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Safe at home: Educating Vancouver residents about fire prevention

Initiative sends Vancouver Fire Corps volunteers, officials door to door in city’s fire-prone neighborhoods

By Jack Heffernan, Columbian county government and small cities reporter
Published: August 24, 2019, 6:00am
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Vancouver Deputy Fire Marshal Skip Navarrette goes door to door to hand out fire prevention education materials as a part of Project Home Safe in Vancouver on Aug. 10.
Vancouver Deputy Fire Marshal Skip Navarrette goes door to door to hand out fire prevention education materials as a part of Project Home Safe in Vancouver on Aug. 10. Moriah Ratner/for The Columbian Photo Gallery

Paula Person, a Vancouver Fire Corps volunteer, was going door to door distributing fire prevention education materials when she came upon a troubling sight. The exterior of a home she was visiting was littered with cigarette butts.

She knocked on the door and spoke with the residents.

“They were pretty quiet.

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