“In a fire, seconds count”, said Evelyn George, fire inspector. The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) estimates that 4% of homes without smoke alarms represent more than one quarter of reported home fires and more than one-third of home fire deaths. Important, firefighters say, because 40 to 50 percent of households that do have fires, do not have working smoke detectors. Three out of five fire deaths resulted from fires in homes with no smoke alarms or no working smoke alarms, the association reports.
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To help do that, along with installing smoke alarms, crews also talked safety and helped families with fire escape plans.
Merodio added that there have been many fatalities in homes that have smoke detectors installed, but the batteries inside the detectors were dead or had been removed. Despite this compelling evidence, the need for smoke alarms remains great. Go to your outside meeting place.
City firefighters were called to the scene, between Broadway and Sycamore Street, at about 8:16 p.m.
“Those are the areas where we’ve had the most amount of calls in”, he said.
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Local fire agencies from Dixon to Vacaville to Fairfield should be commended for taking a strong and fun step in educating the community about fire prevention and ways to stay safe when a fire does break out.
