Fire fighters promote fire safety concepts through music video
Fire fighters promote fire safety concepts through music video
2023-01-17
A new music video produced by a Miaoli fire department is bringing safety concepts to life through art. Fire fighter Kuo Li-yuan wrote the original song based on the true story of a fire rescue. It features a happy ending: a mother and son escape safely, after taking the right steps to protect themselves in an emergency. Let’s take a look at the video.
“Dawn” is based on the true story of a fire rescue operation from 2016. Houlong fire fighter Kuo Li-yuan wrote the song and lyrics based on a call-out the team received in the early hours one morning.
The alarm report said a mother and son were trapped in a fire. The woman judged that they couldn’t escape by themselves, so she shut the bedroom door to wait for fire fighters to arrive. Shutting the door was the action that kept the fire’s smoke and heat out of the room. It resulted in both mother and son getting safely rescued.
Hsiao Jen-fu
Houlong Fire Department
We started with the mother and son as the center of the song. It’s about our state of mind after we, the fire department, arrived, and there was a mother and son and we could contact them and get them out.
The true story inspired Kuo, fire fighter and amateur musician. He asked his colleague Hsiao Jen-fu to direct a music video and found actors to take part.
Kuo had been a keen guitar player as a student, and whenever he had a moment to spare, he’d be found in the dormitory strumming and singing to himself. During the making of the MV, Kuo and Hsiao thought hard about how to make a promo video that would avoid the cliches of the normal instruction clips.
Kuo Li-yuan
Houlong Fire Department
Once we had fixed the tune, we kept on improving it. We had already started filming by that point. When we had worked out the basic length of time, we kept on improving it. After editing the lyrics and the tune I would ask him to check it. All in all, we must have gone through 50 different versions.
The lyrics smuggle in some important concepts about how to deal with a fire, which Kuo hopes will serve listeners who get into trouble. They include key points like, “Shut the door and wait for rescue,” “Don’t hide in the bathroom”, “Don’t cover your mouth with a wet cloth,” and “Don’t run upstairs if there’s smoke.”
"火場自救"實例寫成歌 防火宣導用唱的
2023-01-17
苗栗縣消防局第二大隊後龍分隊隊員郭力源，把火場自救的觀念，譜寫創作成歌曲「曙光」，並由分隊隊員蕭任甫擔任導演，兩人合力拍攝成微電影，一起來聽聽。
「曙光」是一首發想於2016年火場求生案例的真人真事歌曲，後龍消防員郭力源自創詞曲，內容訴說在2016年凌晨發生的火警。
據報有一對母子受困，當時婦人判斷已經來不及逃生，於是將臥室房門關上，等待消防人員的到來，就是婦人這「關門」的動作，讓房間阻絕了濃煙及高熱，母子倆才得以獲救。
[[後龍消防隊員蕭任甫]]
“一開始就是以歌曲裡面的母子為主軸，我們消防隊員一到達現場，有一對母子受困，由我們消防人員接觸到她，把母子救出來後的心境。”
這件真實案例讓玩音樂的郭力源有了創作靈感，請來演員和同是分隊隊員的蕭任甫擔任導演，製作成MV。
郭力源學生時期就會彈吉他，沒有勤務時總會在寢室內自彈自唱，創作期間也常和蕭任甫討論如何能把宣傳影片跳脫傳統政令宣導的刻板印象。
[[後龍消防隊員郭力源]]
“後來確定那個旋律之後，也是一直在改，那個時候已經開始在拍影片了，大概時間抓出來後就一直改，修詞和旋律後就問他，前前後後修了50幾個檔案。”
他們將「關門待救」、「別躲浴室」、「別再用濕毛巾摀口鼻」、「遇到火煙別往上跑」等火場自救觀念融入歌曲中，希望大家可以更深入了解遇到火警，如何讓自己全身而退。
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