BENTON, IL- The City of Benton Fire Department is extremely blessed to have great partners who care about our community. Last Spring, with the enormous help of The Elks Lodge 1234 and Changing Seasons Ace Hardware, we were able to start the program “Fires In The Home”. This program was designed around women of the home and provides fire safety education and home fire extinguishers to families without.
It’s a great program that just adds another level of protection for your family. If you are interested in receiving one of these limited quantity of extinguishers, please send us a message on our Facebook page. Couple this with our free smoke detector program and your guaranteed to feel and be safer for this holiday season.
The men of the BFD will come to your home, provide safety information and mount both extinguisher and smoke detectors free of charge!
The free smoke detectors are offered free of charge from a grant from the American Red Cross and Franklin County Emergency Management Agency.
Below are some safety facts about smoke detectors:
• Smoke alarms are the residential fire safety success story of the past 30 years.
• Each year, three out of five home fire deaths result from fires in homes with no smoke alarms or no working smoke alarms.
• The risk of dying in a reported home fire is cut in half in homes with working smoke alarms.
• Smoke alarms fail most of the time because of missing, disconnected, or dead batteries.
• Almost five million households still do not have any smoke alarms.
• Overall, three-quarters of all U.S. homes have at least one working smoke alarm.
Don’t be left out!
This program will allow us to do the following:
Install at no charge, up to three smoke detectors per residence.
Gather information about the residence and owners to help them develop a fire escape plan for their family.
This program also allows the department to keep reserve alarms on our apparatus, in case we respond to a home with no fire alarms.
To get in on this amazing opportunity, residents with a need should, leave a message with us on our Facebook page, or call our station at (618) 439-2511 to schedule an appointment.
If you need both smoke detectors and extinguishers, please make one appointment.
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