This is Fire Prevention Week and Flin Flon Fire Chief Chad Cooper explains this year’s theme is Don’t Wait Check the Date.  He says smoke alarms are a very important early warning system.  He says you can remove the smoke alarm from the wall and look at the back for the manufacture date noting smoke alarms should be replaced if they’re older than then years.  He says it it’s under ten years you can put it back and test it monthly.  He says working smoke alarms can reduce fatal fires by 50 percent.

Cooper adds the Fire Department will visit local residents this month to perform free smoke alarm inspections and install smoke alarms as part of the Office of the Fire Commissioner’s SAFE Family Program. For information you can contact the Fire Hall.