3. Community engagement: How should we partner and engage with communities to improve fire safety?

This series of videos provides technical guidance for improving fire safety in informal settlements. It tackles many topics that will assist fire departments, NGOs, municipalities and communities in developing safer settlements. It is based on a book that can be download free of charge at:
Fire safety engineering guidelines for informal settlements: http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/108926

The videos in this series are:
1. Informal settlement and backyard fires: 'Our burning nation' -    • 1. Informal settlement and backyard fires:...  
2. Understanding fire science: A spark becomes a disaster -    • 2. Understanding fire science: A spark bec...  
3. Community engagement: How should we partner and engage with communities to improve fire safety? -    • 3. Community engagement: How should we par...  
4. Fighting informal settlement and backyard fires - From alarms to fire trucks -    • 4. Fighting informal settlement and backya...  
5. Backyard dwellings and fire safety -    • 5. Backyard dwellings and fire safety  
6. Making informal settlement homes more fire resistant -    • 6. Making informal settlement homes more f...  
7. Moving forward: To safer informal settlement and backyard communities -    • 7. Moving forward: To safer informal settl...  

Series created by: Fire Engineering Research Unit at Stellenbosch University (FireSUN) with assistance from RADAR and Kindling.
Directed and filmed by: Justin Sullivan (www.justinsullivan.org)

This work was financially supported by the Western Cape Department of Human Settlements and the Lloyd's Register Foundation. The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors. They do not purport to reflect the opinions or views of the funders or its members.

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