Fire Department Announces Winners Of Fire Prevention Week Contest

Monday, October 27, 2014

Best of Show winner Jillian Waterhouse with Boyd-Buchanan stands next to her poster with Deputy Fire Marshal Seth Miller (left) and Fire Marshal Beau Matlock. Jillian won a $100 Walmart gift card with her winning poster.
photo by Garner Bruce

The Chattanooga Fire Department held its annual Fire Prevention Week awards ceremony at the Chattanooga Public Library downtown. Fire Marshal Beau Matlock and Deputy Fire Marshal Seth Miller announced the winners of the fire safety poster contest. The winning posters were the ones that best illustrated this year’s fire safety theme, which was “Working Smoke Alarms Save Lives. Test Yours Every Month!” The winners received gift cards from Walmart, and the overall winner (i.e. Best of Show) will have her poster prominently displayed on a billboard for a month. A complete list of the poster contest winners is included below:

Kindergarten – Claire Hooper, Berean Academy, $50 Walmart Gift Card

1^st Grade – Tanner Morgan, Calvary Christian School, $50 Walmart Gift Card

2^nd Grade – Shelby McKinney, Hixson Elementary, $50 Walmart Gift Card

3^rd Grade – Zayla Marie Smith, Red Bank Elementary, $50 Walmart Gift Card

4^th Grade – Ava Culpepper, Boyd-Buchanan School, $50 Walmart Gift Card

5^th Grade – Ashley Young, Boyd-Buchanan School, $50 Walmart Gift Card

6^th Grade – Madison Baldwin, East Lake Academy, $50 Walmart Gift Card

7^th Grade – Vani Carter, Brown Middle School, $50 Walmart Gift Card

8^th Grade – Rob Lindsey, Silverdale Baptist Academy, $50 Walmart Gift Card

9^th Grade – Elizabeth Hoilman, Boyd-Buchanan School, $50 Walmart Gift Card

10^th Grade – Ana Rico, Boyd-Buchanan School, $50 Walmart Gift Card

11^th Grade – Nate Henderson, Boyd-Buchanan School, $50 Walmart Gift Card