BEAT Alley Life Safety Team

Baytown's Fire Department boasts an exciting, imaginative program that teaches elementary school age children life and fire with clowns, puppets, music, magic and more. The Baytown Educational Action Team (BEAT) has been tremendously successful in getting life and fire safety messages out to children of the Goose Creek Independent School District.

Programs at area elementary schools present life and fire safety messages to over 11,000 children each year.

The BEAT Alley Team includes Darrell Davis, Howard Gudgell, Jerry Ickes, John Wadley, Jim Moss, Gaston Gagne and John Adkins. Each year, the team develops a new skit to perform. They use educational characters to teach safety behavior to K through 6th grade students.

Snozzle, Haz-Mat Man, Cookie, Firefighter Bill, Crusty and Steamer are shown with children from Travis Elementary School after the Life Safety Presentation of the 2003 Season at their school.

BEAT Alley very proudly received the Texas Municipal League's Award of Excellence for Education in 2001