Detect To Protect

A working smoke detector in every home.

What is a Fire Safety Visit? 
As Fire Administration receives your registration information, you will be scheduled according to your indicated preference of day and time and your availa-bility at time of contact. LPFD will have our firefighters perform “Fire Safety Visits” to each of the registered addresses. 

A Fire Safety Visit will include the following: 

• Installation of smoke detectors, if necessary 
• Replacement of smoke detector batteries, if necessary 
• Advising of where you may consider placing additional smoke detectors 
• Education on how and when to test smoke detectors, as well as when they should be replaced 
• Education on what to do when a smoke alarm is heard going off 

Where should I have smoke detectors in my home? 
You should install smoke alarms in every bedroom, outside each sleeping area and on every level of your home. 

When to change batteries and/or test smoke detector? 

• Smoke alarm batteries should be changed twice a year. An easy way to remember this is to change the batteries at the same time that you change your clocks for Daylight Savings Time. 
• You should test your smoke alarms on a monthly basis.
• Smoke alarms should be completely replaced every ten (10) years. 

Why do I need to participate? 
Smoke alarms save lives. If there is a fire in your home, smoke spreads fast and you need smoke alarms to give you time to get out. Having a working smoke alarm cuts the chances of dying in a reported fire in half. Almost two-thirds of home fire deaths re-sulted from fires in homes with no smoke alarms or no working smoke alarms. Smoke alarm failures usually result from missing, disconnected, or dead batteries.