Fire Safety Coloring Pages

Fire safety for kids, one page at a time

Five of the pages each show one thing to remember. Stop, drop and roll is what to do if your clothes catch fire: stop where you are, drop to the ground and cover your face with your hands, then roll over and over until the flames are out. Get low and go shows a child crawling along a hallway under the smoke, because smoke rises and the cleanest air is near the floor. On another page a parent tests the smoke alarm while a child covers their ears — smoke alarms should be tested once a month. A family gathers at its meeting spot by the mailbox, well away from the house, and a child who is safely outside phones for help.

Make a fire escape plan

The meeting spot page is a good way to start a plan together. Walk through your home and find two ways out of every room, choose a meeting place outside such as a tree, a lamp post or a mailbox, and practise a fire drill at home twice a year. Once everyone is out, stay out, and call the fire department from outside — 911 in the United States, 999 in the UK and 112 across Europe.

Firefighters and fire trucks

The easy pages have big shapes and bold lines: a smiling fire truck with a ladder and a coiled hose, a firefighter with a hose giving a wave, a firefighter helmet beside an axe and a hose, and a dalmatian puppy in a helmet next to a fire hydrant. Dalmatians were fire dogs in the days of horse-drawn fire engines, running alongside to clear the way and guard the horses. Other pages show firefighters at work — lifting a cat down from a tree, spraying water on a campfire, polishing their truck outside the fire station — and a page of firefighter gear to colour and name, from the helmet and coat to the boots, extinguisher, axe and hose.

Firefighter hat template

The template page has a helmet shield with a ladder and an axe on its badge, and two headband strips. Colour the shield, cut out all three pieces along the dashed lines, tape the strips together to fit around a child’s head and stick the shield to the front — a hat for a pretend fire station or a classroom safety day.

Fire Prevention Week

In the United States, Fire Prevention Week is held every October in the week that includes October 9, remembering the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Many schools and fire departments hold safety talks and station visits that week, and these pages are drawn to go with them. The button at the top of this page bundles all twenty into a single download, and every page comes as a PDF in both US Letter and A4.

Detailed pages for older children and adults

The six detailed pages suit coloured pencils and fine markers: an antique fire engine with spoked wheels, a bell and brass lanterns; a ladder truck rescue at an apartment building; a realistic firefighter portrait; the four-armed cross badge worn by firefighters, with a helmet, an axe, a ladder and a hydrant in its centre; a fire safety mandala; and a doodle page packed with trucks, helmets, hydrants and a dalmatian.

More vehicles and October pages

There is another fire engine among the car coloring pages, F is for fire truck in the letter F coloring pages, and the October coloring pages cover the rest of the month.