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Norristown Fire Dept. and IBEW 380 Union to Install Free Smoke Detectors

This Saturday some Norristown residents will receive free smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors.

The Norristown Fire Department will partner with the Electrical Workers Union IBEW 380 from Collegeville for the second time this year to install free smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors for a number of Norristown residents on Nov. 16, according to Norristown fire chief Thomas M. O'Donnell.

The fire department and the union plan to install the detectors in homes in the 500 block of Barbadoes Street, the 500 block of Norris Street and the 100 block of West Marshall Street. The work will be done between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Saturday.

This is the second smoke and carbon monoxide detector blitz that the fire department and the minority caucus of the Local 380 will do his year. The first was in April in the 900 block of West Lafayette Street.

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According to chief O’Donnell, the two partnered earlier this year in April to install detectors in the 900 bock of West Lafayette Street, which went over very well.

“[W]e look forward again to partnering with our local electrical labor union and going door to door in this grassroots campaign ensuring each and every home has working Smoke Detectors and a working Carbon Monoxide [detector] just in time as we move into the winter months and the Christmas Season,” wrote O’Donnell in an email to Patch.com.

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According to Tyrone M. Baker, president of the union minority caucus, he is happy to partner with O’Donnell because the fire chief often helps the community.  “We are very appreciative of his efforts and would not be able to have this joint campaign without him,” Baker wrote in an email to Patch.

 

 


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