{"id":10515,"date":"2015-10-04T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-10-04T13:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=10515"},"modified":"2015-10-04T01:50:34","modified_gmt":"2015-10-04T06:50:34","slug":"tennessee-state-fire-marshals-office-commemorates-national-fire-prevention-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2015\/10\/04\/tennessee-state-fire-marshals-office-commemorates-national-fire-prevention-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee State Fire Marshal&#8217;s Office Commemorates National Fire Prevention Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-67254\" title=\"Tennessee State Fire Marshal\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Tennessee-State-Fire-Marshal-200x184.jpg\" alt=\"Tennessee State Fire Marshal\" width=\"200\" height=\"184\" \/><strong>Nashville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; Location matters when it comes to your family\u2019s smoke alarms. This year\u2019s Fire Prevention Week (October 4th-10th) campaign, \u201cHear the Beep Where You Sleep. Every Bedroom Needs a Working Smoke Alarm!\u201d stresses the importance of placing working smoke alarms in every bedroom, outside each sleeping area, and on every level of a home, including the basement.<\/p>\n<p>Along with firefighters and safety advocates nationwide, the Tennessee State Fire Marshal\u2019s Office (SFMO) is joining forces with the nonprofit National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) during Fire Prevention Week to remind Tennesseans about the importance of working smoke alarms.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=k9h_r3uuH-U[\/youtube]\" >https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=k9h_r3uuH-U[\/youtube]<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->\u201cIn a fire, every second counts,\u201d said State Fire Marshal and Tennessee Department of Commerce &amp; Insurance Commissioner Julie Mix McPeak. \u201cHalf of home fire deaths result from fires reported at night between 11:00pm and 7:00am when most people are asleep. Home smoke alarms can alert people to a fire before it spreads, giving everyone enough time to get out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the latest NFPA research, working smoke alarms cut the chance of dying in a fire in half. Meanwhile, three out of five fire deaths resulted from fires in homes with no smoke alarms or no working smoke alarms.<\/p>\n<p>In Tennessee, the SFMO and our partners have distributed more than 88,000 free smoke alarms across Tennessee that have saved the lives of 106 people so far and helped dramatically reduce Tennessee\u2019s fire death rate.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the SFMO and our partners will stress the importance of fire safety devices such as fire sprinklers and smoke alarms in upcoming events.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At 10:00am Tuesday, October 6th, a demonstration of the potential life-saving impact of fire sprinklers will be held at 600 James Robertson Parkway (Bicentennial Capitol State Park) during a side-by-side burn demonstration.<\/li>\n<li>On Saturday, October 10th our partners with the Tennessee Region of the American Red Cross will be installing smoke alarms in neighborhoods in Nashville, Memphis and elsewhere.<\/li>\n<li>Also on Saturday, October 10th, 10 Tennessee fire departments will take part in the inaugural \u201c100 For 100\u201d smoke alarm installation challenge. These fire departments will attempt to install at least 100 smoke alarms in a 24 hour period in their communities to commemorate the SFMO\u2019s 100-year anniversary. We hope to install 1,000 smoke alarms across Tennessee in a day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To learn more about smoke alarms and \u201cHear the Beep Where You Sleep. Every Bedroom Needs a Working Smoke Alarm!\u201d visit NFPA\u2019s Web site at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.firepreventionweek.org\" >www.firepreventionweek.org<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sparky.org\/fpw\" >www.sparky.org\/fpw<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nashville, TN &#8211; Location matters when it comes to your family\u2019s smoke alarms. This year\u2019s Fire Prevention Week (October 4th-10th) campaign, \u201cHear the Beep Where You Sleep. Every Bedroom Needs a Working Smoke Alarm!\u201d stresses the importance of placing working smoke alarms in every bedroom, outside each sleeping area, and on every level of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[3521,3931,2118,2958,1619,284,738,739,9936,2469,261,2288,7212],"class_list":["post-10515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","tag-american-red-cross","tag-bicentennial-capitol-state-park","tag-fire-prevention-week","tag-julie-mix-mcpeak","tag-memphis-tn","tag-nashville-tn","tag-national-fire-protection-association","tag-nfpa","tag-sfmo","tag-smoke-alarms","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-department-of-commerce-and-insurance","tag-tennessee-state-fire-marshals-office"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10516,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10515\/revisions\/10516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}