Crime & Safety
Baltimore Fire Department to Perform Fire Safety Sweep
Firefighters will be visiting homes citywide to talk with residents about how to protect their homes from fire.
Following a deadly fire in south Baltimore last week the fire department will perform fire safety sweeps in neighborhoods citywide.
From 10 a.m. to noon Saturday firefighters will educate residents about how to make their home more safe from fire, and install smoke detectors in homes where they are needed, according to a news release.
"One of the best tools we have to reduce fires and fire deaths is public education,” said Assistant Chief Jeffrey Segal said in the news release. “Each resident must do their part to decrease the risk of fire in the home, and to increase their chances of survival in an emergency.”
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A resident in need of a smoke detector may also call 311 and firefighters will come and install a detector within two hours of the call.
A state law that went into effect this year requires homes to have a smoke detector on each level of the dwelling.
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Last year 12 people died in fires, which is the lowest recorded figure in city history, according to a department news release.
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