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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) — The Champaign Fire Department and other organizations are spreading fire safety awareness. They will be passing out and installing smoke detectors on Joanne Lane on Thursday.
Officials say those alarms can cut your chances of dying in a fire by half. The goal this week is to get alarms in at least 20 homes. They’re doing this “mini-Blitz” a month before the annual Smoke Alarm Blitz in honor of Christian Sheehan.
“The Fire Department has made a lot of improvements in how we track all kinds of data, and we’re able to identify that problem more quickly,” Deputy Fire Marshal Jeremy Mitchel said. “And that’s kind of one of the reasons that we’re going up to the Douglass Park neighborhood. We’re able to pivot a lot faster toward where a potential problem area is.”
He said the Fire Department is still looking for more than 80 volunteers to participate on May 18 to hand out and install detectors. For more information on how to register, call the Champaign Fire Department.
