Hi, boys and girls! Sparkles the Fire Safety Dog here! It has been a very busy past couple of weeks! I have a new little brother, Siren, and he has been keeping me very busy! He came to live with Firefighter Dayna, Tango, and me, and he is learning to be a fire safety dog, just like me! Here he is, getting ready to get on the computer for the first time. He even started his own Siren the Fire Safety Dog Facebook page!
Man, is he ever growing FAST.
Siren got to go on his very first trip in an airplane all the way to Boston! Isn’t that so cool? Tango and Siren are in Southborough, Massachusetts, helping with the release of my new children’s fire safety book, Sparkles Goes to Boston. In the book, children can spend time with me as I travel with Firefighter Dayna from Arkansas to Massachusetts to visit Firefighter Jim and his friends at the Southborough Fire Department. You can meet real firefighters, visit a firehouse, and see Firefighter Jim’s fire trucks! My latest book is the one on top.
Here is Siren helping Firefighter Dayna on the schedule for the Sparkles Goes to Boston northeast book tour. We had so many requests for fire safety presentations that we could hardly keep up!
First, Tango went to Shawn’s school to do a fire safety presentation with Firefighter Dayna, Tango, and Shawn’s dad, Lt. Jim Peltier. Holding the book is Shawn’s mom, Karen.
Then, Siren and Tango went to the Southborough Heritage Day festivities. Siren was too little to walk in the parade. The sirens on the fire trucks would have been too loud for his little ears. He had fun watching, though!
Here’s a picture of Tango in the parade.
They got to see Southborough’s new tower ladder truck. Isn’t it a beaut?
A tower ladder truck is a ladder that has a bucket on it. The bucket is there to help rescue people.
Tango and Siren hung out at the Southborough Fire Department’s open house. Here they are with my good friend, Lt. Jim Peltier:
Siren got so tired that he found a patch of grass and took a nap! Here are some boys and girls watching him sleep!
Before I go, I would like to share this fire safety tip:
Love,
Sparkles the Fire Safety Dog was adopted by Firefighter Dayna from the Dalmatian Assistance League in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2003. Previously, Sparkles led a challenging life as she was rescued from a home with 62 other dogs. Sparkles has helped spread the fire safety message through her fire department and the Keep Kids Fire Safe® Foundation. Sparkles has assisted her department’s firefighters and the foundation with hundreds of fire safety programs on the local, state, and national level. Sparkles has come a long way since her days before adoption, participating in a Congressional briefing in Washington, DC, appearing on FOX and Friends in New York City and PBS KIDS Sprout, as well as having her photo appear on a jumbotron on Times Square in New York City. Sparkles is the star of her own critically acclaimed, award-winning children’s fire safety book and audio book, Sparkles the Fire Safety Dog. Sparkles and the book have been credited with helping save the lives of two children and their two families ((http://www.sparklesthefiresafetydog.com/saves). Her recent children’s books, Sparkles the Fire Safety Dog Coloring Book and Sparkles Goes to Boston, were just released. Sparkles is a busy dog, sharing the fire safety message on her website (www.sparklesthefiresafetydog.com), blog (http://www.sparklesthefiresafetydog.blogspot.com), twitter (http://www.twitter.com/sparklestfsd) and Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sparkles-the-Fire-Safety-Dog/58302653884?ref=mf).
Sparkles the Fire Safety Dog Video for Children: http://sparklesthefiresafetydog.blogspot.com/2009/12/new-sparkles-fire-safety-dog-video.html
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