Pensacola Fire Department Urges Residents to Check Their Smoke Alarms

City Residents Encouraged to Call PFD at 850-436-5200
to Schedule a FREE Smoke Alarm Installation

The Pensacola Fire Department would like to remind residents about the importance of having working smoke alarms in your home, which can play a vital role in reducing fire deaths and injuries. City of Pensacola residents are encouraged to call PFD at 850-436-5200 to request a FREE smoke alarm and installation assistance. County residents may call Escambia County Fire Rescue at 850-595-HERO (4376) for assistance.

Important fire safety and smoke alarm information from the National Fire Protection Association:

Install smoke alarms in every sleeping room and outside each separate sleeping area. Install alarms on every level of the home.
A closed door may slow the spread of smoke, heat and fire.
Smoke alarms should be interconnected. When one sounds, they all sound.
Large homes may need extra smoke alarms.
Test your smoke alarms at least once a month. Press the test button to be sure the alarm is working.
Today’s smoke alarms will be more technologically advanced to respond to a multitude of fire conditions, yet mitigate false alarms.
When a smoke alarm sounds, get outside and stay outside.
Replace all smoke alarms in your home every 10 years.
Click here for more information about the installation and maintenance of home smoke alarms.

Smoke alarm statistics from NFPA:

Smoke alarms were present in three-quarters (74%) of reported home fires in 2014–2018.
Almost three out of five home fire deaths were caused by fires in properties with no smoke alarms (41%) or smoke alarms that failed to operate (16%).
The risk of dying in reported home structure fires is 55% lower in homes with working smoke alarms than in homes with no alarms or none that worked.
In fires in which the smoke alarms were present but did not operate, two of every five (41%) of the smoke alarms had missing or disconnected batteries.
Dead batteries caused one-quarter (26%) of the smoke alarm failures.

To learn more about smoke alarms and fire safety, visit the NFPA website.