LTFR Safety Squad

Celebrating 20 Years of Fire Safety Education!

This year marks the 20th Anniversary of Lake Travis Fire Rescue’s Safety Squad, a milestone celebrating two decades of educating and empowering young minds with essential life and fire safety skills. Since 2005, this dynamic program has used creativity, theater, and pop culture to engage elementary school children in safety education.

LTFR Safety Squad is the department’s public education program that promotes life and fire safety to elementary school age children in the district. Utilizing popular characters and pop culture references, this group of firefighters introduce and reiterate important safety lessons and concepts through annual theatrical performances at in-district elementary schools.

Safety Squad enables members to interact with the community to enhance the relationship between the department and local children and their families. These interactions broaden the participating firefighters’ experience with the community they serve, and promotes positive relationships with emergency personnel.

The program promotes concepts that are universal (EDITH and “stop, drop and roll”) as well as regionally specific lessons, like water safety. Recent themes for programs have encompassed characters or movies that are easily recognizable and relatable to audiences, like Avengers or The Lego Movie, to encourage engagement and participation to assist with retention of concepts.