The Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department is offering free battery-powered smoke alarms and installation for qualifying Jacksonville residents in single-family and two-family homes.<\/p>\n
The department is also providing free replacement batteries for existing smoke alarms at no charge.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n Fire safety officials emphasized that smoke alarms save lives by giving residents sufficient warning to escape a burning structure.<\/p>\n Due to limited resources, not every applicant will meet the criteria for the service. Exclusions from the program include commercial businesses, contractors, and rental properties.<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Businesses, organizations and individuals looking to help prevent residential fire deaths through increased smoke alarm use can contribute to the Mayor\u2019s Home Fire Safety Program.<\/p>\n Safe Kids of Northeast Florida and Wolfson Children\u2019s Hospital serve as donating partners to the initiative.<\/p>\n Anyone seeking more information or interested in contributing to the Mayor\u2019s Home Fire Safety Program<\/a> can call 904-255-3286.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department is offering free battery-powered smoke alarms and installation for qualifying Jacksonville residents…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[691,24406,5686,167105,29771,100109,702,167106,16903,704,855,320,5052,22176,116,118,117,29407,167107,504,82174,2737,167108,23771],"class_list":["post-424405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-alarm","tag-appliance","tag-battery","tag-carbon","tag-carbon-monoxide","tag-ceiling","tag-danger","tag-detector","tag-domestic","tag-emergency","tag-fire","tag-home","tag-house","tag-household","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-maintenance","tag-monoxide","tag-safety","tag-sensor","tag-smoke","tag-upkeep","tag-wall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}