• Smoke alarm safety tips
• Keeping Your Community Safe and Sound
• Installation and maintenance tips
• Ionization vs. photoelectric
• Reports and statistics
• Children and smoke alarms

Keeping Your Community Safe and Sound

Smoke alarms can mean the difference between life and death in a fire. Working smoke alarms cut the chance of dying in a fire in half. Smoke alarms detect and alert people to fire in its early stages, giving them the time needed to escape safety. Use the following resources to conduct a smoke alarm awareness campaign in your community.

Fill-in-the-blank news releases

• Open House on Smoke Alarm Requirements (doc)
• Smoke Alarm Requirements and Recommendations (doc)

• AUDIO Chris Dubay, NFPA Vice President of Codes & Standards, talks about smoke alarms:   What are the different kinds of smoke alarms?   What kind of smoke alarm does NFPA suggest?   The most important message about smoke alarms.

  Ten-year Life of Smoke Alarms (doc)
• Types of Smoke Alarms (doc)

• Testing of Smoke Alarms (doc)
• Need for both types of smoke alarms (doc)
• Response to a local fire

Videos

Print Public Service Announcements (all quarter-page)

• Interconnected smoke alarms (PDF, 1.1 MB)
• Replace smoke alarms (PDF, 1.3 MB)
• Is your home protected? (PDF, 1.3 MB)
• Protect the ones you love (PDF, 350 KB)
• It's the first of the month (PDF, 729 KB)

Smoke alarm information

• Fast facts About smoke alarms (PDF, 526 KB)
• Smoke alarm safety checklist (PDF, 790 KB)
• Smoke alarm community outreach ideas (PDF, 152 KB)
• Smoke alarm talking points (PDF, 1.3 MB)
• English easy-to-read handout  (PDF, 415 KB)
• Spanish easy-to-read handout (PDF, 439 KB)

Other Resources

• NFPA’s fact sheet on smoke alarm types, nuisance alarms, and more (PDF, 639 KB)
• NFPA’s fact sheet on smoke alarms in reported U.S. home fires (PDF, 93 KB)
• NFPA’s safety tips on smoke alarms (PDF, 175 KB) 
• NFPA's Smoke Alarms in U.S. Home Fires report by Marty Ahrens, September 2009