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free address signs
Is your address sign visible from the road? We can't help you if we can't find you!
Reflective address signs make it easy for Firefighters and Ambulance Crews to locate your house any time of the day or night. When your emergency is easy to locate, responders arrive sooner. Lake Wenatchee Fire and Rescue makes these important address signs available to all homeowners in the area.
free Smoke
alarms
Do you have working smoke alarms in every room and on every floor of your home?
LWFR is offering FREE in-home smoke alarm inspections and replacement of inoperable smoke alarms. To request a smoke alarm installation, please fill out the form below and you will be contacted to set up an appointment for smoke alarm installation.
Benefits of having smoke alarms
-Properly installed and maintained smoke alarms save lives and protect against injury and loss due to fire.
-The fire death rate in homes with working smoke alarms is 51% less than the rate for homes without this protection.**
-Having a working smoke alarm reduces one’s chances of dying in a fire by nearly half.
-From 2000-2004, no smoke alarms were present or none operated in almost half of the reported home fires.
-An estimated 890 lives could be saved each year if all homes had working smoke alarms.
-Sixty-five percent of reported home fire deaths in 2004 occurred in homes with no smoke alarms or no working smoke alarms.
-Sprinklers and smoke alarms together cut your risk of dying in a home fire 82% in relation to having neither.
-Only 26 percent of families have actually developed and practiced a home fire escape plan.
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(Info obtained from the American Red Cross)