SAFETY: Kids do take in what they're taught, and that information can make a big difference down the road

it’s a real pain to get them off but I appreciate that type of thing now.”

He never expected to learn so much from these kids and laments that you can never really know if you made an equally strong impression. But Hinz confides that in Humboldt, they DO know their event has saved lives already.

“We know they’re taking away positive messages from the day because we had a situation where a family was visiting relatives, the kids were at home by themselves, and they had a fire break out in the home.” Hinz says the visiting children called 911 and evacuated everyone from the house safely. When asked by members of the responding fire department how they knew what to do, those same kids explained that they had been at the farm safety day in Humboldt more than one year before and that’s where they had learned exactly what to do. “Their experience saved lives that day,” she says. “That alone shows that if kids can take away one positive message from the day, it can make a difference later on.”