Sioux City volunteers install more than 600 smoke detectors

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) - Organizers say volunteers installed more than 600 smoke detectors in Sioux City homes during a fire safety blitz.

The Sioux City Journal says (https://bit.ly/1QN9Sni ) more than 100 volunteers teamed up to visit around 1,600 homes Saturday in an area that accounted for 7 percent of Sioux City’s fires in 2015 although occupying just 1 percent of the land inside city limits.

As one volunteer on each team installed a detector, other team members talked to residents about fire safety.

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Information from: Sioux City Journal, https://www.siouxcityjournal.com