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Comhairle and Fire Service Work Together To Improve Safety |
1 October 2002 |
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Two hundred households across the Western Isles will be safer in future thanks to a scheme to provide hard wired smoke detection. The £20k initiative, agreed at today’s Housing Committee, will be aimed at the most vulnerable in society in the first instance. Many hundreds of homes in the Western Isles have only battery operated smoke detectors or no smoke detection at all. The allocation of £20k will provide hard wired smoke detection in approximately 200 homes. Housing Chairman George Lonie said: “This initiative arose out of a community planning meeting and illustrates the benefit of agencies working together. Many of the most vulnerable in our communities will be safer in their homes as a result of this.” Nigel Scott Tel: 01851 709389 (Work) |
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