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Article: Program to provide smoke alarms for residents: Donations sought for campaign coordinated with National Fire Prevention Week.
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- The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
- Article date:
- October 1, 2006
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Byline: Ellie Baublitz
Oct. 1--The Carroll County commissioners and Carroll County Volunteer Emergency Services Association have teamed up to have smoke alarms installed in homes where there are none.
Leon Fleming, the association's liaison to the county, asked the commissioners for money to purchase 1,000 smoke alarms "so we could put them on the apparatus and distribute them when people don't have smoke alarms in their houses."
The commissioners allocated $4,000 from the general contingency account to pay for the smoke alarms. The campaign will begin during National Fire Prevention Week, Oct. 8-14.
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