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In response to these staggering statistics, the Home Safety Council launched The Great Safety Adventure in 1999 as a way to deliver home safety messages to children and parents in a fun and interactive way. Lowe's is the founding sponsor of the Home Safety Council and proud supporter of The Great Safety Adventure. Now celebrating its tenth anniversary on the road, The Great Safety Adventure has reached more than one million children and family members with hands-on home safety messages.

The Great Safety Adventure's nearly 1,000 square foot animated learning space teaches kids the safety practices needed to help prevent the five leading causes of home injury: (1) falls; (2) poisoning; (3) fires and burns; (4) choking and suffocation and (5) drowning.

Inside The Great Safety Adventure

After entering the oversized front door and gathering in the living room, the children begin their tour as "safety rangers-in-training" and are on the lookout to identify common home dangers such as toys and games left on the stairs; poisonous cleaning supplies in easy-to-reach cabinets; protruding pot handles on the stove; and unattended electrical appliances near water.

Equipped with flashlights, the "safety rangers-in-training" are led on a room-by-room tour of the interactive home and taught to shine their lights and recite the phrase -- "Code Red Rover, Grown Up Come Over" -- when they spot a home danger. The phrase emphasizes to children the importance of calling a grown up over to help correct home hazards rather than trying to fix the problem themselves.

The adventure ends in Rover's bedroom, where Rover and the Safety Ranger team work to prepare children for a fire
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