Firefighters plan home safety checks in St-Lazare - house battery backup

Saint-Firefighters
Lazare will visit the local residence again this summer, check the smoke alarm and review other fire safety and precautions.
Home visits will take place for more than 10 weeks between June and August, with the aim of reducing the number of fires
Death and property loss of relevant personnel, encourage homeowners to do more work in reducing the risk of fire at home, and promote municipal fire safety regulations to ensure residents comply.
Firefighters aim to go to every family in town at least once every five years.
"When you have a smoke alarm, your chances of survival will be much greater.
This is very important, "said Daniel Boyer, the town's public safety director and fire chief.
Since the family check-up began nine years ago, St-
Boyer said that Lazare did not record the death of a house fire.
He estimates that the town has upgraded or replaced more than 5,000 smoke detectors since the start of the project.
"The fire department is not just about putting out fire.
"Prevention is very important," Boyer said . ".
"At night, I was very confident that we had a safe city.
According to the Canadian Fire Department, eight people died every week in Canada, of which residential fires accounted for 73 of the deaths.
Recent research has shown that due to the use of highly flammable synthetic building materials, some modern homes may burn faster than old ones, reducing the time for people to escape from fires from the previous 17 minutes to 3 minutes.
According to the Quebec Fire Association, there are no smoke alarms and no normal work in almost all fatal house fires.
"You only have a few minutes to go out," Boyer said . ".
"Fire doubles every minute.
The materials in our home and furniture are very different from those 30 years ago.
There are fewer Wood and more synthetic materials.
The smoke gets very bad, these innocent toxic.
In addition to ensuring smoke detectors work, it is important for families to develop evacuation plans so everyone knows what to do if a fire breaks out at home, Boyer said.
Municipal articles of association of Saint-
Lazare is strict and requires building owners to install and maintain fire alarms on every floor of a residential building, including a basement.
In the case of a power failure, the smoke detector must also be connected to the spare battery, which is St-Lazare.
Homeowner will be required to replace wired alarm during security checkOnly or battery-only.
Defective smoke detectors or smoke detectors for more than 10 years must be replaced.
Firefighters will show their ID cards to the homeowner during home visits.
Their uniforms can also identify them and will drive official vehicles from the fire department.
Please call 450 if you have any questions or concerns-424-8000 (ext. 207).