{"id":4974,"date":"2022-03-16T11:26:27","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T14:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=4974"},"modified":"2022-03-16T11:26:27","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T14:26:27","slug":"queens-fire-departments-distributing-smoke-detectors-in-wake-of-fatal-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2022\/03\/16\/queens-fire-departments-distributing-smoke-detectors-in-wake-of-fatal-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens fire departments distributing smoke detectors in wake of fatal fire"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo Ed Halverson<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

Fire departments in Queens are putting smoke detectors into the hands of schoolchildren.<\/p>\n

New Germany fire department started the initiative of handing out smoke detectors to students following a fire in Auburndale in February that claimed the lives of three children and a woman.<\/p>\n

They challenged other departments to do the same and so far, Greenfield and North Queens have accepted.<\/p>\n

North Queens Fire Department Chief Chris Wolfe says they\u2019ve purchased a supply of smoke detectors locally.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll be giving out 300 first go, and then probably in a few months we\u2019ll be doing another 300 possibly, but expanding out to grandparents and things like that, to put in their homes,\u201d said Wolfe.<\/p>\n

He says the smoke detector giveaway is in addition to efforts they routinely make to educate children.<\/p>\n

\u201cI find in Queens County and around that fire prevention is quite outstanding there,\u201d said Wolfe. \u201cMost of the departments take a lot of pride in teaching the kids and going to schools during fire prevention week and making sure that they are aware of fire safety.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wolfe says the smoke detectors will be handed out at North Queens Community school sometime in the next couple of weeks.<\/p>\n

E-mail:\u00a0edhalversonnews@gmail.com<\/a><\/strong>
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Fire departments in Queens are putting smoke detectors into the hands of schoolchildren. New Germany fire department started the initiative of handing out smoke detectors to students following a fire in Auburndale in February that claimed the lives of three children and a woman. They challenged other departments to do the same and so far, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[32,429,622,621],"class_list":["post-4974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-chris-wolfe","tag-fire-prevention","tag-north-queens-fire-department","tag-smoke-detector"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4977,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4974\/revisions\/4977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}