- Author
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Fire
- Title
- How a Swedish Home Smoke Detector Campaign is Meeting With Success.
- Journal
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Fire,
Vol. 77,
No. 952,
37-38,
October 1984
- Keywords
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fire safety
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smoke detectors
- Abstract
- Not a day seems to go by without the radio or TV news reader telling us of a fire--usually overnight--which has cost the lives of one or more member of a family. And newspapers have a succession of stories with headlines like "Family perish; Mother trapped with four children". What can we do to reduce the toll of these residential fires? Must we accept the deaths as an inevitable price to be paid for the privilege of living with gas, electric, coal and paraffin fires, of smoking cigarettes or playing with matches, or being careless with cleaning fluids? What we must accept is the "an Englishman's home is still his castle", but at the same time we must besiege him with fire safety missives. The Fire Protection Association, through the Central Fire Liaison Panel Network and with the support of the government, is about to do this by making "Fire costs lives" the theme of this year's Fire Safty Week, from October 22-27. Fire joins the campaign with this special feature hich includes reports of efforts made to solve the problem of home fire safety in Scandinavia and throughout Europe.