What you need to know:
- Mat-Su residents can receive free smoke and carbon monoxide alarms, including installation, through a borough program supported by the American Red Cross Alaska Home Fire Campaign. A second program offers free reflective green address signs to help emergency responders locate homes more easily.
- The programs could help residents update their emergency readiness as the region prepares for what some local officials say could be a historic wildfire season.
- The services are available to both homeowners and renters and can be requested by contacting a local fire station.
WASILLA – Mat-Su residents can receive free smoke alarms and reflective address signs through two borough fire department programs aimed at improving home safety.
The programs offer easy ways for residents to update their emergency readiness as the region prepares for what some local officials say could be a historic wildfire season due to dry conditions and low snowpack. A grass burn by Mat-Su Assembly member Ron Bernier near his Meadow Lakes home last month was the Mat-Su region’s first documented wildland fire of the year.
Spearheaded by the Matanuska-Susitna Borough Emergency Department, the program provides free smoke and carbon monoxide alarms, along with installation, through a partnership with the Red Cross Alaska Home Fire Campaign , officials said…