HELENA — This week marks Fire Prevention Week, and local elementary students are getting hands-on learning with our firefighters to keep themselves and their families safe.

“The hands-on is the greatest thing they can probably do,” Wayne Noem with East Valley Fire says.

Students at Warren Elementary were visited by the East Valley Volunteer Fire Department and got to tour the truck.

This visit is something that hit close to home for teacher Alinon Arpin. “Volunteer fire departments are, I think, the greatest American heroes,” Arpin says. “They saved my house from burning down when I was five years old, and they have been there for me my whole life and continue to be here when we need them, and are here today.”

Here, giving students a memorable experience, like putting on full fire gear

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