The Columbia Fire Department reaches out to kids for Fire Prevention Week each year.

Paxton Keeley elementary students filed into the gym to learn about fire safety and prevention.

The Columbia Fire Department and the TRYPS theater group traveled to several elementary schools in Columbia Thursday. Performers had fire safety lessons for the first and second graders.

Margie Crosby, an eleven-year-old actress, said it's an important cause.

"Well it teaches kids how to do fire safety because if there's a fire, you never want to be not prepared," Crosby said.

The skit demonstrated the importance of blowing out candles, cooking safely and using electrical cords carefully.

Although fire prevention week focuses on both children and adults, the Columbia Fire Department wants to emphasize fire safety to kids.

"This is our target range where they're really receptive to the information we are trying to give them," Assistant Fire Marshall Shawn McCollum said.

One of the recommendations from the Boone County Fire Protection District is to establish a fire escape plan, but it also says to practice.

"We would encourage the parents to sit down with their children about what they've learned and develop that plan together and come to some consensus of what they should do in case an emergency happens," Division Chief Gale Blomenkamp said.