October 4-10, 2009 is Fire Prevention Week. Emergency response agencies should combine traditional fire prevention week activities – station tours, school visits, press releases, and public service announcements with social media efforts. This screencast showcases the efforts by Montgomery County Fire Rescue Service to use social media tools – blogger, Facebook, and Twitter – to talk about Fire Prevention and to bring attention to its traditional fire prevention week activities.

Links for MCFRS Social Media Sites:
Hub – MCFRS Online
Spoke – @mcfrs
Spoke – Facebook page

About The Author

Greg Friese has authored 45 articles for PIOSocialMediaTraining.com

Greg Friese, MS, NREMT-P is an author, podcaster, blogger, and advocate for emergency response agencies to use social media before, during, and after any incident. Greg is the Director of Education for CentreLearn Solutions, LLC. He is also the co-host of the EMSEduCast podcast and is a paramedic for a 911 agency in northeast Wisconsin

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