Nov
23
2006
You’re Fired! Preventing Prevention and the First Amendment.
On October 18, members of the Sweetwater County Fire District #1 fire department spent a part of their morning teaching a fire prevention class to a group of preschoolers. The firefighters, mostly volunteers, came to the preschool in Rock Springs at the request of the preschool teachers, who knew that one of the firefighters’ children was a student at the school. The firefighters have done these kinds of classes hundreds of times, teaching children fire prevention and safety, and encouraging good will between them and the communities they serve. And, as the old saying goes, “An ounce of prevention….”
This time, though, there was a catch. A catch that came in the form of a Violation Notice from the Rock Springs Fire Department.
