Wentzville Fire District Holding MoCHIP Event Saturday

On Saturday the Wentzville Fire Protection District will be co-sponsoring a Missouri Child Identification Program (MoCHIP) event with the local Wentzville Masonic Lodge 46. 

The event will be held at of the Wentzville Fire Protection District from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. 

MoCHIP has been deemed “one of the most comprehensive child recovery and identification programs in the nation,” by The National Center for Exploited and Missing Children. 

This is a FREE Child ID program. 

Since its inception in August 2005, the MoCHIP program has seen and identified over 127,000 children making it one of the most successful and thorough of the “CHIP” programs. Collectively the CHIP programs have processed more than 1.2 million children throughout the United States.

The event is open to all children up to the age of 21. The program provides parents with a CD containing: physical, personal and medical information, emergency and medical contacts and digital photographs and fingerprints. 

Also provided with the CD are laminated ID cards and a dental impression wafer with DNA sample. No information on the child is kept by the MoCHIP program; all of it goes to the parents.

The Wentzville Fire District covers 88 square miles of Western St. Charles County and includes the cities of Wentzville, Foristell, Flint Hill, and Josephville; as well as large portions of Lake Saint Louis, Dardenne Prairie and O’Fallon.