{"id":8130,"date":"2016-12-12T09:01:15","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T14:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/?p=8130"},"modified":"2016-12-19T09:30:34","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T14:30:34","slug":"fsc-student-offers-christmas-tree-safety-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/2016\/12\/12\/fsc-student-offers-christmas-tree-safety-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"FSC Student Offers Christmas Tree Safety Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PCM senior Jenna DeBobes has created a video for her Media and Communications class called <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/CyF3hgrRpLY\"><strong>\u201cChristmas Tree Fire Safety.&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8148 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/12\/christmas-tree-with-family-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"christmas-tree-with-family\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the Bethpage Fire Department, the video &#8211; posted on YouTube &#8211; presents common-sense tips on how to keep your home and family safe from an unexpected fire.\u00a0 Among Jenna&#8217;s tips:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Choose a tree that is fresh and green<\/li>\n<li>Water the tree daily<\/li>\n<li>Place the tree at least three feet away from a heat source, such as baseboards and radiators<\/li>\n<li>Make sure all smoke alarms are operating properly<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;This video is evidence of Jenna&#8217;s talent,&#8221; says Howard Gold, visiting assistant professor in PCM, &#8220;and how we apply actual learning experiences to bring students\u2019 academic work into the real world, with success outside the classroom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The video includes this alarming statistic from the National Fire Protection Association: from 2009-2013, $17.5 million in property damage was caused by tree fires.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PCM senior Jenna DeBobes has created a video for her Media and Communications class called \u201cChristmas Tree Fire Safety.&#8221; Sponsored by the Bethpage Fire Department, the video &#8211; posted on YouTube &#8211; presents common-sense tips on how to keep your home and family safe from an unexpected fire.\u00a0 Among Jenna&#8217;s tips: Choose a tree that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":8135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8130"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8149,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8130\/revisions\/8149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}