New Sparkles the Fire Safety Dog Video for Children

Sparkles the Fire Safety Dogs' Fire Safety Give-away Coming Soon!

Coming Soon! Sparkles the Fire Safety Dog will be having a drawing for her Facebook Fans for some really exciting fire safety items from First Alert and Firehouse Dog Publishing! Be sure to join Sparkles the Fire Safety Dogs' Facebook Fan page before January 5th for your chance to win!

Sparkles the Fire Safety Dog Bio Updated

Sparkles the Fire Safety Dog's Bio has just been updated. See how a dog rescued from a home with 62 other dogs has been able to help keep children and their caregivers fire safe since being adopted in 2003. Click on the picture of Sparkles below to see this updated bio!

New Sparkles the Fire Safety Dog Word Search Puzzle

New Sparkles the Fire Safety Dog fire safety word search puzzle for the younger set! Click on the image of the puzzle to print. Enjoy!


Attention kids, parents, teachers and fire departments. Have you checked out Sparkles the Fire Safety Dogs' fun fire safety activity and coloring pages? Check them out! We're adding new ones all of the time! Just click on the picture of Sparkles to see more!

Please feel free to add this button to help spread the fire safety message. Together, we can help keep children and their caregivers fire safe!

Children's Author Firefighter Dayna Hilton on KXIO

Wanted to post the interview with Don Johnson on KXIO October 2nd. Had a wonderful time visiting with Don on "Eye on the River Valley" about what Sparkles and I have been up to sharing the fire safety message.

To hear this fun interview, click HERE.

A special thank you to Cortney Lanphear from KXIO for recording this interview for us!

Children's Author Show Interview

Wanted to share an interview that I recently did on the Children's Author Show. To listen to the interview, click HERE.

New Fire Safety Hidden Puzzle Picture by Artist Liz Ball!

The Keep Kids Fire Safe Foundation is pleased to announce the addition of a new fire safety hidden puzzle picture by artist Liz Ball! Sparkles the Fire Safety Dog and Firefighter Dayna Hilton enjoyed working on the project with Liz with the goal of helping spread the fire safety message in a unique way among children and their caregivers.

Liz is the author/illustrator of the popular Hidden Treasures hidden picture puzzle books. More than 3000 of her hidden pictures are published in over 100 newspapers, magazines and publications throughout the U.S. and internationally.

Click on the picture below to go to the page!

Attention kids, parents, teachers and fire departments. Have you checked out Sparkles the Fire Safety Dogs' fun fire safety activity and coloring pages? Check them out! We're adding new ones all of the time! Just click on the picture of Sparkles to see more!

Please feel free to add this button to help spread the fire safety message. Together, we can help keep children and their caregivers fire safe!

Helping Save the Lives of Children and their Caregivers

Whenever Sparkles the Fire Safety Dog and I worked on the children's fire safety book and audio book, Sparkles the Fire Safety Dog, we wanted to do whatever we could to help keep children and their caregivers fire safe. In the spirit of the holidays, we are going to donate profits from the book and audio book to the Keep Kids Fire Safe Foundation. To learn more, visit the foundation's website, HERE.

Firehouse Dog Publishing Donates One of a Kind Item to the Keep Kids Fire Safe™ Foundation

A one of a kind item will be donated to the Keep Kids Fire Safe™ Foundation. While in Omaha, Glenn Trembley, autographed for the first time, several copies of the audio book, Sparkles the Fire Safety Dog. This audio book was made by three generations of firefighters, including Trembley, Children's Author Firefighter Dayna Hilton and her son, Michael. This audio book is special in that it is the very first copy that was signed. This audio book will also be signed by Firefighter Dayna, Firefighter Michael and will be pawed by Sparkles the Fire Safety Dog. This one of a kind audio book will be used later at an auction for the Keep Kids Fire Safe™ Foundation to help raise money to help the foundation's fire safety efforts.

If you have an item that you would like to donate to the foundation, please contact Executive Director, Dayna Hilton at dayna@keepkidsfiresafe.org

Sparkles the Fire Safety Dog, Tango and Firefighter Dayna visit Celia Clinton Elementary

Sparkles the Fire Safety Dog, Tango and myself, along with the assistance from firefighters from the Tulsa Fire Department, made a fire safety program at Celia Clinton Elementary. This program was sponsored by our good friends from the Rotary Club of Tulsa.

We enjoyed our visit back to the school and had the best time! To learn more about this incredible day, click on the picture of the Tulsa World newspaper below.

You may watch a newscast of the days activities HERE. To view more pictures, click HERE.

More information on Sparkles the Fire Safety Dog helping save the lives of children and their families may be found HERE.

Sparkles and Firefighter Dayna Guests on Sprout's Sunny Side Up Show

I am so excited that many of the fire safety videos from Sprout's Fire Safety Week (aired on the Sunny Side Up Show with Kevin and Chica in October of this year) are up on the Sprout website. Check them out and share with everyone you know! There are a few more and I am hoping that the good folks at Sprout will add them as well.

Thanks, Sprout, for helping spread the fire safety message!

Sparkles the Fire Safety Dog Book Review

There's nothing more than Sparkles and I enjoy than reading a review of our children's fire safety book, Sparkles the Fire Safety Dog. We recently received this review by Kiyoko Czech from Chicago, Illinois.

"Our family loves Sparkles... my son first met her while watching Sprout and so when we heard she had a book, we of course had to go and get it. Sparkles and Firefighter Dayna make fire safety fun and not scary. My son knows what to do if there is a fire - Get low and go!!! For fire safety month, we donated this book to all the classrooms at my son's daycare. All the teachers love it!! The large pictures make it easy to read to a class so everyone can see. Thanks Sparkles andFirefighter Dayna for keeping our kids safe!!! "

Thanks, Kiyoka for this great review! What a great idea to donate the book to your son's daycare and what a wonderful way to help share the fire safety message!

If you would like to write a review of Sparkles the Fire Safety Dog, please send it to us at review@firehousedogpublishing.com. We would love to hear from you too!

Firehouse.com Playing it Safe Blog

I am very excited to be one of the "Official Firehouse Bloggers" for Firehouse.com. On the Playing it Safe blog, I will be sharing fire safety programming ideas and initiatives, low cost fire safety programming ideas and what’s new in fire safety. I truly appreciate Firehouse.com for providing fire safety educators with this resource, and I encourage you to join me as we travel to fire departments across the country to feature their innovative fire safety efforts. If you are a fire safety educator, or are responsible for fire safety programming, together, we’ll learn about their programs and hopefully gain some new ideas to implement into your fire safety programming.

Sparkles the Fire Safety Dog Featured in Tulsa Pets Magazine

Sparkles the Fire Safety Dog, and her book of the same title, are featured in the Fall 2009 issue of Tulsa Pets Magazine.

Thank you to Sherri Goddall for the great article and to Marilyn and everyone at Tulsa Pets Magazine for helping share the work of Sparkles. We really appreciate you helping spread the fire safety message!

Click on the picture of the magazine cover to read the article.

Sparkles the Fire Safety Dog Visits the Roosevelt Thompson Library

Sparkles the Fire Safety Dog, Tango and children's author, Dayna Hilton, visited the Roosevelt Thompson Library in Little Rock, November 7th. Firefighter Dayna read from the book, Sparkles the Fire Safety Dog, sang fire safety songs, handed out trading cards and stickers and let the children pet Sparkles. So much fun!

Nice article on Firehouse.com

Thanks to Susie Nicol for writing this really nice article about Sparkles and my fire safety efforts. Firehouse.com has always be very pro-active about fire prevention and Sparkles and I Firehouse.com for all that they do to share the fire safety message!

To read the article, click HERE.

An incredible day!

Recently I was invited by President H.W. Bush (the 41st) to attend the Points of Light Presidential Forum on Service with him and President Barack Obama at Texas A&M University and today was the big day! This celebration celebrated the 20th anniversary of the prestigious Points of Light Award.

Johnson County RFD #1’s Fire Safety Team was awarded the Points of Light Award by President George H.W. Bush on June 8, 2006. Each year, Johnson County RFD #1 firefighters and Fire Corps donate over 6,000 hours to the department's fire safety program.

Before the event started, I had the honor of sharing with everyone in attendance the story of Johnson County RFD #1's Fire Safety Team (comprised of firefighters and Fire Corps members) and the efforts to keep everyone fire safe.

I was grateful to have the opportunity to share our experience with everyone present so that they would know what a tangible difference that not only firefighters, but also Fire Corps volunteers, can make in a community.

Kari Wood, a former director of RFD #1 Fire Corps and now program coordinator for the national Fire Corps office, attended the ceremony on behalf of the RFD #1’s Fire Corps. We were indeed honored to be recognized by not only President George H.W. and Mrs. Barbara Bush again but this time by President Obama. Not only were the Bush's there with the President, but past A&M President Secretary of Defense Gates and Senator Sam Dunn - among many other dignitaries. We were honored when we were asked to stand and be recognized with the other Points of Light Award winners. Here is some great info on the event: http://www.kbtx.com/home/headlines/64655067.html

Note from Mrs. Futia

Received this very nice note from Mrs. Futia, a first grade teacher who attended one of my presentations at the New York State Public Educator's Conference, "Hi Dayna, I attended your presentations at the NYS Public Educators' Conference in the spring. Just wanted you to know how much we are all enjoying your videos! I shared your website & Sprout links with the other kindergarten & grade one teachers. My students are Sparkles fans! Our best to you and the dogs. Keep up the good work!"

Elisa Futia, Edward J Arthur Elementary - Athens NY, Elsmere Fire Aux & Selkirk Fire Aux - Bethlehem, NY.

If you get a chance, check out Ms. Futia's really nice website for her students and their families HERE.

Thank you for your nice note Ms. Futia! You and your class at Edward J. Arthur Elementary are our newest Sparkles the Fire Safety Dog Fire Safety Champions!

Tango Helping Share the Fire Safety Message

Last week was Tango's first opportunity to help share the fire safety message. Enjoy the video!

Sparkles the Fire Safety Dog ranked #3 on Amazon.com for Children's Firefighting Books!

Remember the dream of our book, Sparkles the Fire Safety Dog, being in the top 100 of Amazon.com children's firefighting books a couple of weeks ago? Wanted to share that it is now ranked #3 on Amazon.com for Children's Firefighting Books at the moment and #59,007 on Amazon.com's Best Book sales rank! Helping keep children and their caregivers fire safe, that's what it's all about!

A Big High Paw to Dawn Meehan!

One of my FAVORITE bloggers on the whole face of the planet is Dawn Meehan ("Because I Said So Blog"). Yesterday Dawn shared the "Change Your Batteries" Sprout fire safety tip. Thank you Dawn for helping spread the fire saf...ety message! Sparkles has made you the newest Sparkles the Fire Safety Dogs' Fire Safety Champion!

Have Fun Chica and Kevin!

Good luck to our good friends, Kevin and Chica from the Sunny Side Up Show on Sprout! Firefighter Dayna and I hope you have fun this week sharing the fire safety message. Learning about fire safety is so much fun!

To learn more about this exciting project, click HERE!

Children's Book Author Dayna Hilton Scheduled to be on the Children Authors Show

On October 14th and 15th, Children's Author Show Radio will broadcast an interview about our book, Sparkles the Fire Safety Dog. Click on the link, then find the Children's Author Show link. Hear all about Sparkles the Fire Safety Dog and how the book came to be!

Thank you to the FireFamily at Stop, Drop and Roll Blog

Thanks to the FireFamily at the Stop, Drop and Blog for sharing our fire safety efforts! We love this blog and Sparkles the Fire Safety Dog and I have have been following it for sometime. We appreciate Firemom, Firedad, BigBrother and LittleBrother for all that you do to help promote fire safety! Stop, Drop and Blog are now Sparkles the Fire Safety Dogs' Fire Safety Champions!

Thank you Together Time 4 Families Blog!

What is so wonderful about being an fire safety educator, is seeing the big hearts that people have! Thank you to Susan at Together Time 4 Families blog for helping Sparkles the Fire Safety Dog and me spread the fire safety message! On the Together Time 4 Families blog, you will find parenting tips and activities to do with your young child that promote literacy and foster a love for books! Congratulations to Together Time 4 Families on being our new Sparkles the Fire Safety Dog Fire Safety Champion! If you would like to be a Sparkles the Fire Safety Dog Fire Safety Champion, all that you have to do is help us spread the fire safety message by adding my fire safety webpage and/or blogs to your site!

Tango in the Fire Safety Awareness Parade

Yesterday Tango walked with me during the Seventh Annual Fire Safety Awareness Parade in Clarksville. What was amazing, is that it didn't even phase him that sirens were blaring from 39 fire trucks and emergency vehicles! Gotta love that great training (thanks Kari, Jerry and Elaine!)

Firehouse Dog Publishing, LLC® on Facebook!

Join the Firehouse Dog Publishing, LLC® Facebook page to learn all about this publishing house and its efforts to help promote fire safety!

Click on the button below to join!

Sprout Fire Prevention Week Fire Safety Promos

Below you will find three promos that Sprout has been running in anticipation for Fire Prevention Week next week. Sprout has some pretty exciting things planned!







To learn more about this exciting week, visit HERE!

Thank you Dragonflies 'n Daydreams Blog!

Thank you to Dragonflies 'n Daydreams for helping spread the fire safety message! You are our Sparkles the Fire Safety Dogs' Fire Safety Champions of the day!

Sparkles' Picture on Times Square in New York City!

Have you ever had one of those days where you felt like you needed someone to pinch you to see if it's real? Well, today I am having one of those days!

Thanks to the good folks at Sprout, a picture of Sparkles, Spanner and I appeared on a jumbotron in Times Square! Sprout has been very pro-active in helping share the fire safety message, and the dogs and I are so very grateful to have partnered with them on this important project!



And, even more good news! The photo also appeared on a jumbtron in Las Vegas!


Learn more about the Sprout fire safety project HERE.

Thank you Sprout for all that you do to help Sparkles, Spanner, and me and all of the firefighters out there to help keep children fire safe!

Tango Returns from Texas!

I was really excited when my good friend Tango returned from Texas! Tango went away a dog and returned a Fire Safety Dog! Thank you to Kari, Jerry and Elaine!