The Most Important Piece of Equipment in Your Home Is Your Smoke Alarm
It is also probably the cheapest to maintain!
A Properly Functioning Smoke Alarm May Save You and Your Family's Life
Properly functioning smoke alarms play a vital role in reducing deaths and injuries from fire. Sixty-five percent (65%) of reported home fire deaths occurred in homes with no smoke alarms or no working smoke alarms.
Although new homes must conform to current building, fire, and life safety codes, it is recommended that all homes have smoke alarms installed in the following locations:
1. In each sleeping area.
2. Outside each separate sleeping area in the immediate vicinity of the bedrooms.
3. On each additional story of the home, including the basement.
Remember, you are more than twice as likely to die in a fire in your home that does not have properly installed and working smoke alarms.
If you would like the fire department to check your smoke alarms, can not afford a smoke alarm, or would like additional information, please call 301-600-
Smoke
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