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“Can you hear that?” Lafayette Fire Department’s (LFD) new public service announcement poses a crucial question to Lafayette Parish residents about their smoke detectors.

Since October is both Fire Safety Month and Audiology Awareness Month, LFD is working with audiology professionals and community partners to distribute free specialized smoke alarms to the deaf and hard of hearing in Lafayette Parish. The initiative includes educating the public on the importance of having one’s hearing assess

LAFAYETTE, La. (LCG)- The Lafayette Consolidated Government program that offers free deaf and hard-of-hearing smoke alarms to Lafayette Parish residents is being extended until September 2021.

Lafayette Consolidated Government’s Department of Community Development secured a FEMA Fire Prevention and Safety Grant last year which provides the Lafayette Fire Department with specialized smoke alarms to protect those vulnerable to a fire or escaping a fire.

Firefighters will install smoke alarms equ

Smoke… alarm. Two words, five letters each. When you think about it in those terms, it’s kind of small. But when you think about what those things actually do---the benefits?—those are big, big, big.

Just in the last month, there have been multiple fires in Acadiana--- and in one, investigators say, there was no smoke or fire alarm to be found.

So, isn’t it great that--- year-round, actually-- the Lafayette Fire Department is part of a statewide program called “Operation Save A Life”. And this

Beginning in January of this year with the help of FEMA’s Fire Prevention and Safety Grant, the Lafayette Fire Department (LFD) began offering smoke alarm systems designed to alert eligible deaf and hard of hearing City of Lafayette residents of a fire. The program is now eligible for all of Lafayette Parish citizens who are deaf or hard to hearing.

The “Fire Safety Solutions for Lafayette” program was created to distribute and install free smoke alarms, as well as provide fire safety messages,