VIDEO: Louisville Safety Town

LOUISVILLE, Miss.(WCBI)- Nowadays, it’s difficult to maintain safety in all areas of life, whether if be gun and fire safety or internet safety.

The women, of the Louisville Pilot Club, are lending a helping hand to the community as they host their third annual “Safety Town.”

Bettie Glass has been spear heading Louisville Safety Town for three years now.

“Our Pilot Club of Louisville is a dedicated and hard working club. We’re not just a group of women, who like to get together and have fun, we work, and we work hard. It’s a pleasure to be able to do these things for our county. It’s very rewarding and the pilot club is all about community service,” said event coordinator Bettie Glass.

The sheriff’s department, police department, fire department, ambulance service, and highway patrol all turned out to give the community valuable lessons on being cautious.

“We’re showing the dangers of not wearing your seat belt. We have a roll over simulator set up and it kind of simulates what happens in a roll over crash. It throws dummies out. You can probably see it in the background. It throws the dummies out that are not restrained. Roll-over crash is probably one of the most common crashes that we have. We’ve had a rash of these lately,resulting in fatalities in our area. So it’s really important to get that message out and hopefully get everybody to buckle up,” said Troop G Public Relations Officer Criss Turnipseed.

Winston County kids from pre-school to eighth grade got the chance to climb on the emergency vehicles, ask all they questions they could about safety to the professionals and of course, blow the horn.

WCBI’s Chief Meteorologist, Keith Gibson, says he takes every opportunity to share weather safety tips.

“I like to get out in the community and talk to folks about weather safety, especially this time of year. It’s always good to be prepared. There could always be a storm, you don’t know when it could be. It could be tomorrow, it could be two years from now, but it’s just good to be aware about what to do when we get some violent storms in the area,”said Gibson.

The event was free to the children and Glass says that couldn’t be possible with out a little help.

” I can not say enough for our local vowels food market and our local Wal-Mart. They single-handedly feed our crowd and we are able to give a really nice lunch thanks to them and Coke and Pepsi. We just have all kinds of; city county state and federal offices and private organization offices, individuals who donate all kind of materials,” said Glass.

Glass says she hopes the event will continue to grow each year. For more information, on how you can volunteer for next year, contact Bettie Glass at 662-418-0005.