NFPA announces "Hear the Beep Where You Sleep: Every Bedroom Needs a Working Smoke Alarm" as the official theme for Fire Prevention Week, October 4-10, 2015

Working smoke alarms in the home provide life-saving potential from fire. That’s a fact we all know well, and it’s one that’s been strongly promoted over the years. But how often do we educate the public about where smoke alarms should be located in the home? More pointedly, how often are we promoting the importance of having a working smoke alarm in each bedroom? Not often enough, according to an informal, online quiz we posted last year, which showed that less than half (42 percent) of approximately 36,000 respondents did not know that a smoke alarm should be installed in...