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Article: Fire Chief Urges Citizens To Use Smoke Detectors To Reduce Deaths
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- New Pittsburgh Courier
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- January 13, 1996
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Fire Chief Urges Citizens To Use Smoke Detectors To Reduce Deaths.
Every year there are countless numbers of people who die needlessly as a result of smoke inhalation.
In 1994, two small children died in a fire in Sheraden - just 10 feet from the bed was an empty bracket where a smoke detector should have been.
Pittsburgh Fire Chief Charlie Dickinson said a cordless telephone and a TV remote control, both with batteries, were also found nearby. None of these devices could have saved these children's lives.
In 1990, the fire bureau started a pilot program called Early Alert Detector and it continues today. The program involves firefighters installing one free smoke detector, with ...