After three residential home fires on Thursday in Danville where each home was not equipped with a working smoke alarm, Danville firefighters want to remind the public that they can provide ones for homeowners.
Fire Lieutenant Chris McMahon says that anyone who owns a home in Danville can call the Danville Fire Department and request a free smoke alarm which will then be provided for them. He says landlords are required to provide them to renters as well.
Firefighters battled three calls on Thursday evening that left the department stretched thin on personnel. The first incident was a house fire in the 500-block of Warrington Avenue in Vermilion Heights. McMahon says the kitchen and dining room areas of the home were destroyed. Crews were also called to a home in Holiday Hills that had smoke inside, and they were also called to a building at the Veterans Affairs campus that had smoke inside. All three calls came within a 40-minute period. Firefighters were also called to a house fire in the 200-block of South Jefferson Street on Thursday.
McMahon says a woman who lived at one of the houses that caught fire narrowly escaped because she was asleep and the house did not have a smoke detector.
