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Oxnard Fire Department launches two-year campaign to install 2,500 smoke alarms
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Steve McNaughton, City of Oxnard fire marshal, told the INCO general membership that the Fire Department has federal funding to install more than 2,500 smoke alarms and will run neighborhood campaigns and monthly installation events for about two years.
Steve McNaughton, City of Oxnard fire marshal, told the INCO (Neighborhood Council) general membership that the Fire Department has federal funding to install more than 2,500 smoke alarms across the city and will run neighborhood campaigns and monthly installation events for about two years.
“Roughly 60% of home fire deaths happen in homes with no smoke alarms and no working smoke alarm,” McNaughton said, adding that in 2022 the city had five times the national fatality rate for home fires. He said the department obtained its third federal grant to underwrite the installation effort.
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