Frequently Asked Questions

Safetyville is an interactive educational program designed to teach young children in grades K-2 about personal safety and injury prevention. The concept is based upon the premise that, through their own involvement, children can learn safety awareness and procedures for injury prevention.

Unintentional injury is the leading cause of death and disability in children under age 14. These injuries can be prevented through proper safety practices such as the consistent use of seat belts, car seats, bicycle helmets and pads, safe street crossing behavior and home safety awareness. Safetyville child participants learn and practice safety procedures in the nine major risk areas for childhood accident and injury prevention.

Safetyville is located in the Firefighters Museum building at 748 Massachusetts Avenue in Indianapolis, Indiana along with the Firefighters Survive Alive Village.

Survive Alive Village is on the second floor of the Indianapolis Firefighters Museum in old Fire Station #2, which was built in 1870. The fire house was in active service from 1871 until 1929 and was
one of four identical structures that represented the state of
the art in fire house design at the time. It is the only one of the original four that is still standing and remains the
oldest fire station in Marion County. 

In addition to its collection of historical firefighting equipment, the Museum currently houses late 19th and early 20th century horse-drawn fire trucks on loan from the Indianapolis
Motor Speedway, courtesy of the Hulman family.

The Fallen Firefighters Memorial graces the front of the Indianapolis Firefighters Museum along Massachusetts Avenue. The names of the 75 Marion County
Firefighters who have made the supreme sacrifice
are engraved on ascending columns that spiral upwards into the form of the Phoenix, a mythological bird that
rises from the ashes and symbolizes life renewed.