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Middletown fire department plans optional smoke-detector survey to target grants to high-risk homes
Summary
A new fire-marshal-led effort will deploy grants for alarms and CO detectors and an optional online survey to identify single-family and two-family homes that want inspections; the chief stressed inspections are voluntary and the department cannot mandate fixes for single-family properties.
Chief Albert said one of the department’s new fire marshals has secured grant funding for smoke and CO detectors and is developing a targeted outreach plan. The department intends to use an optional survey on the city website to ask residents whether they have adequate smoke detectors and whether they would like a voluntary inspection.
The chief emphasized the limits of the department’s inspection authority: the department can inspect three-family properties or larger, but it cannot compel inspections or fixes in single-family or two-family homes. "Obviously, we can't inspect single family or 2 family homes," he said, explaining the survey is intended to connect the right resources with the residents most in need.
More details on the grant program and how residents can participate were promised in forthcoming communications.
