If you are a homeowner in the City of Monmouth, the Monmouth Fire Department offers a program where they will come into your home, check your smoke alarms, and will also install new if needed, reports Assistant Fire Chief Craig Cozadd:
“We will come in and see what you have going on, whether you have working smoke detectors, no smoke detectors, whatever the situation is, and then we will install new smoke detectors that are free of charge to the citizens, and just make sure everything is up to speed. The ones we put in are the permanent battery 10-year ones. They have passed a law where all the detectors that are installed have to have a 10-year battery, no more of the replaceable batteries. We will come in floor to floor, make sure you have what you need. If you have any trouble with any detectors anyway, or any carbon monoxide detectors, call us. We can come see what the situation is. We don’t do carbon monoxide detector free installs, but we will install one for you if you have one and need help with it. Placement is pretty big for us. You want smoke detectors high, obviously because smoke is high, but we like the carbon monoxide detectors a little lower because carbon monoxide comes from the floor up.”
With the cooler temperatures setting in, Assistant Chief Cozadd reminds homeowners to get those furnaces checked to prevent carbon monoxide exposures.
