CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) – The Charleston Police Department, with help from the Charleston Fire Department, is using a different, more hands-on approach to teaching students about safety.

Charleston Police Department Cpl. Josh Harper said: “We educate children about fire safety, walking near roads, road rules, stranger dangers. We teach them many different things that they need to learn while they are here.

The fire and police departments created Safety City as a place where students could learn how to stay safe.

While in Safety City, students not only learn from the Charleston Police Department and Charleston Fire Department about how to stay safe, but they can also use what they learn and take it to the streets of Safety City and even climb. from a smoking house.

“We’re using this city as a backdrop, which gives them a realistic perspective on everything they’ve learned here and applying it to that. So when they’re driving, they know to stop at stop signs, they know to use traffic lights, and they know to look for pedestrians,” Harper said.

After COVID, the Charleston Police Department and the Charleston Fire Department retooled the curriculum they would teach at Safety City.

“We revisited our material and actually updated a lot of things, you know. We added cybersecurity and things like that. The world is changing, so we had to update a lot of things,” Harper said.

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