FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Contact: Ashley Papagni – 407.246.4259
Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer and District 4 Commissioner Patty Sheehan to Work-Along with the Orlando Fire Department to Install Smoke Alarms for City Residents
WHAT:
Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer and District 4 Commissioner Patty Sheehan will work-along with the Orlando Fire Department to distribute and install free smoke detectors in resident homes in the Coytown neighborhood. They will go door-to-door to ensure homes in the area have a working smoke alarms.
The event is meant to highlight the upcoming Fire Prevention Week, October 4-10. Throughout the month of September and October, the Orlando Fire Department will visit neighborhoods in each City District to distribute and install the free smoke alarms.
WHY:
Smoke alarms are the most effective early warning devices available in the event of a fire. Having a smoke alarm in the home cuts the chance of dying from a house fire nearly in half.
HOW:
For more information about how residents can request a free smoke alarm or to find out when the Orlando Fire Department will be in your neighborhood installing smoke alarms, visit www.cityoforlando.net/fire.
WHEN:
Saturday, September 12, 2015
**Media to arrive at 10:15 a.m.**
Work-along to begin promptly at 10:30 a.m.
WHERE:
Coytown Neighborhood
Starting point at the intersection of Illinois Drive and Coy Drive
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