Food banks serve up safety with free smoke alarm offer
Channel: GovernmentofBC
Date: 11/10/2012

The B.C. Government, Food Banks BC and Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (AANDC) are supporting a provincial campaign to help ensure B.C.'s most vulnerable families have working smoke alarms in their homes.
As part of its support, AANDC will be matching an earlier commitment from manufacturer Kidde Canada to provide 2,500 free smoke alarms to on-reserve Aboriginal families, whom research has shown to be at elevated risk of fatality in residential fires.
Today, B.C.'s 93 food banks have made the commitment to join forces with fire services across the province to make free smoke alarms available to interested individuals and families whose accommodation lacks a working smoke alarm -- one of the most essential tools to save lives and property in the event of fire.