[Music] today in York County one fire department took to the streets not to fight a fire but to try and prevent them Fox 43's James Corgan wrote along with the yoran burough Fire Department in its campaign to put smoke detectors in every home a fir truck in the middle of a neighborhood can often be a scary sight but today in your can burrow the firefighters weren't there to extinguish they were there to educate our goal is to get working smoke detectors in the homes within yorana burough and sur
rounding uh homes as well to do that Yana Deputy fire chief Don hoppel and the urana fire department teamed up with the American Red Cross for their Sound the Alarm Campaign which kicked off with canvasing today and the installation of free smoke detectors on Saturday to anyone in the buau who needs them Hopple was inspired by the recent house fires in the area including in February in the city of York which saw three people dead in a home with no working smoke detectors it just got to a point w
here we we'd like to be proactive and do this program ahead of time before something like that happens in our town hoppel says many of the fires he comes across are in homes with no smoke detectors which is the case in 2third of fire deaths Nationwide the goal for both the department and the Red Cross is to give residents the equipment and information they need to stay safe our hope is that everyone will be safer as a result not just safer because they have a working smoke alarm but our hope is
that residents feel also empowered and equipped with the information they need to be safer in their own homes even if one life is saved that we won that's a win-win a briefing for residents interested in the free smoke detectors will be held Saturday at 9:30 a.m. at the urana fire department James caran Fox 43 news
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