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Publication date: 12 November 2018

The safe tweet: social media use by Ontario fire services

Sharon Lauricella and Kristy-Lynn Pankhurst

The purpose of this paper is to examine how fire services use social media to educate the public about safety and fire prevention.

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to examine how fire services use social media to educate the public about safety and fire prevention.

Design/methodology/approach

Grounded theoretical methods were employed in a rigorous qualitative analysis of five significant fire services’ Twitter accounts in Ontario, Canada.

Findings

Seven main themes emerged from the data, with an overarching conclusion that tweets made by fire service organisations and professionals do not focus primarily on fire safety.

Research limitations/implications

This paper addresses a gap in the literature in terms of understanding how social media communicates information about all three lines of defence against fire, with a focus on the first two: public fire safety education, fire safety standards and enforcement and emergency response.

Practical implications

The authors suggest that fire services need to employ a more segmented approach to social media posts with an objective to engage and educate the public.

Originality/value

This paper is the first extensive qualitative analysis to consider the particulars of fire services’ social media presence.

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International Journal of Emergency Services, vol. 7 no. 3
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/IJES-09-2017-0048
ISSN: 2047-0894

Keywords

  • Social media
  • Twitter
  • Grounded theory
  • Fire safety

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Publication date: 12 November 2018

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Paresh Wankhade and DeMond S. Miller

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International Journal of Emergency Services, vol. 7 no. 3
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/IJES-11-2018-067
ISSN: 2047-0894

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