In that column, I also had some fire-prevention safety tips, including checking on your smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors. In April, I had written about former Beacon Journal home writer Mary Beth Breckenridge and an unusual smoldering situation she had at her home, which brought firefighters out twice in two days. Haas had reached out to me after an August column I wrote about an Akron couple who said that reading a column of mine had saved their lives. The carbon monoxide detector program has ended.) 2023 update: See note at the top of the column. Delays, including COVID and shipping delays, meant the carbon monoxide detectors only recently arrived in the city, said Haas.
Akron won a grant in 2019 from the Federal Emergency Management Association (FEMA) for 1,500 carbon monoxide detectors. Haas said the city believes it is the first in Ohio to install free carbon monoxide detectors. Robinson didn’t even know about the city's brand new program to offer carbon monoxide detectors, in addition to the Red Cross partnership for free smoke detectors.
The smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors in the family home were working, but both were upgraded with the free ones installed by the fire department. “I don’t think people should take it for granted that nothing will ever happen,” Robinson said. Robinson also already had a fire-escape plan set up for her mom, but altered it after getting more advice from the professionals. On a recent day, Robinson was at the house following the firefighters around as they pointed out fire and safety hazards, such as a rug that didn’t have anti-slip backing on it and could cause her mom to fall. “You get a false sense of ‘Oh, Dad always took care of this.’” “He was always up on the ladders, etc.,” said Robinson. Robinson’s family home had smoke detectors and a carbon monoxide detector, but that was something her late father always handled. Robinson heard about the program for free smoke detectors when she saw a television news report after a recent fire where a little boy died. Robinson of Copley has been working on a checklist of things to try to ensure her mom can safely stay in the home she’s lived in for 56 years. The American Red Cross also works with other fire departments throughout the Akron region and nationally to ensure people’s homes are protected with smoke detectors. The city of Akron partners with the American Red Cross to provide and install free smoke detectors.
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