SMOKE DETECTORS SAVE LIVES
Our lead topic for our February 2007 newsletter is the result of a press release on SMOKE DETECTORS received from the International Association of Fire Chiefs which begins:
The International Association of Fire Chiefs is pleading with the media to help us inform the public of the high number of house fires with fatalities that have occurred since the beginning of February. “We have lost too many people in home fires in the last two weeks,” said President Chief Jim Harmes. “Last night, six were killed in a house fire in Louisiana, two in house fires in Tennessee and one in my own community in Grand Blanc, Michigan. It is mid-February('07) and by media reports, 59 people in the U.S. have perished in house fires in 17 states since the beginning of this month. We have got to do something,” said Harmes.
Right before this email, a resident a few miles down the road was critically burned in an early morning fire. The Heroics of a neighbor (with a fire extinguisher) and the fire department have, so far, saved this person's life.
Click on the link to Rentlaw.com Guide to Smoke Detectors for more on this subject.
Thank you.
