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Rappahannock's volunteer fire fighters are asking county residents to give the gift of life this Christmas.
The local Fire and Rescue Association is suggesting smoke detectors as Christmas presents. "It’s the perfect gift for those people who are so hard to buy for,” said Frankie Huff, chairman of the Fire and Rescue Association’s smoke detector campaign. "We strongly advocate the use of at least one smoke detector in every house. If the residence has more than one floor, then you need one smoke detector on each floor.”
According to national surveys, families whose homes are protected by a smoke detector cut their chances of dying in a house fire by one-third to one-half.
In the early 1970s, detectors were owned by less than five percent of all households. By mid-1977, the first national survey of detector usage showed 22 percent of households had the alarm devices. By early 1980, that number had risen to 50 percent. A drop in fire fatalities beginning in 1978 corresponds to the increase in detector usage, according to Huff. "But even with more people installing smoke detectors, 6.000 Americans still lost their lives last year in
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