Here is a little history about smoke detectors being given to Bridgeport residents and installed for free to city residents. In the late 1980’s A.B.C.D. with the late Charlie Tisdale as the director was able to get smoke detectors from the Tobacco Institute to start a free smoke detector program.
Action for Bridgeport Community Development Inc. (ABCD), a 501 (c) (3) non-profit agency was designed as the anti-poverty agency for the Greater Bridgeport Area in September of 1964 by the Office of Economic Opportunity. The agency aims to work with people toward the eradication of the “paradox of poverty in the midst of plenty in this nation.” Mr. Tisdale contact the Firebird Society of Bridhgeport to install the smoke detectors for free with batteries that were good for years. A.B.C.D. would provide a list of homes base on the census tract o those in need. Bridgeport’s new fire chief in 1992 Gerald Grover was able to get 700 smoke detectors but he could not get the fire union to install tte fire detectors, so Chief Grover asked the Firebird Society if they would install the smoke detectors and we said yes.
At the press conference Acting Fire Chief Edwards did not mention which type of smoke detector that is being gien out. Both ionization and photoelectric smoke alarms are better at detecting distinctly different yet potentially fatal fires, and because no one can predict what type of fire might start in a home, the USFA recommends that every home and place where people sleep be equipped with either (a) both ionization and photoelectric smoke alarms, or (b) dual sensor smoke alarms (which contain both ionization and photoelectric smoke sensors).
Ron, you’ll also remember that as President of the Firebird Society I got 100’s of smoke detectors donated from Home Depot and the Kidde Corp and the CT Post ran an article about the organization putting them in the homes of Bridgeport residents. Almost immediately people started to call our office and the members of the Firebird Society installed every one of those in the homes of our residents.
The Firebird Society has a long an illustrious history of installing smoke detectors in the homes of Bridgeport residents because as Bridgeport residents too, we have a genuine love for this city and fought for the lives of its residents. Chief Edward’s the history of installing smoke detectors in the homes of Bridgeport residents started years prior to the BFD installing any. The Firebird Society should be mentioned when talking about this worthwhile endeavor and the commitment of excellence displayed by those many members who installed them without the need of financial Renumeration.
Don, Acting Fire Chief Edwards would have no idea about the Firebird Society community work including our smoke detector program because Edwards was not even a firefighter.
Here is a little history about smoke detectors being given to Bridgeport residents and installed for free to city residents. In the late 1980’s A.B.C.D. with the late Charlie Tisdale as the director was able to get smoke detectors from the Tobacco Institute to start a free smoke detector program.
Action for Bridgeport Community Development Inc. (ABCD), a 501 (c) (3) non-profit agency was designed as the anti-poverty agency for the Greater Bridgeport Area in September of 1964 by the Office of Economic Opportunity. The agency aims to work with people toward the eradication of the “paradox of poverty in the midst of plenty in this nation.” Mr. Tisdale contact the Firebird Society of Bridhgeport to install the smoke detectors for free with batteries that were good for years. A.B.C.D. would provide a list of homes base on the census tract o those in need. Bridgeport’s new fire chief in 1992 Gerald Grover was able to get 700 smoke detectors but he could not get the fire union to install tte fire detectors, so Chief Grover asked the Firebird Society if they would install the smoke detectors and we said yes.
At the press conference Acting Fire Chief Edwards did not mention which type of smoke detector that is being gien out. Both ionization and photoelectric smoke alarms are better at detecting distinctly different yet potentially fatal fires, and because no one can predict what type of fire might start in a home, the USFA recommends that every home and place where people sleep be equipped with either (a) both ionization and photoelectric smoke alarms, or (b) dual sensor smoke alarms (which contain both ionization and photoelectric smoke sensors).
Ron, you’ll also remember that as President of the Firebird Society I got 100’s of smoke detectors donated from Home Depot and the Kidde Corp and the CT Post ran an article about the organization putting them in the homes of Bridgeport residents. Almost immediately people started to call our office and the members of the Firebird Society installed every one of those in the homes of our residents.
The Firebird Society has a long an illustrious history of installing smoke detectors in the homes of Bridgeport residents because as Bridgeport residents too, we have a genuine love for this city and fought for the lives of its residents. Chief Edward’s the history of installing smoke detectors in the homes of Bridgeport residents started years prior to the BFD installing any. The Firebird Society should be mentioned when talking about this worthwhile endeavor and the commitment of excellence displayed by those many members who installed them without the need of financial Renumeration.
Don, Acting Fire Chief Edwards would have no idea about the Firebird Society community work including our smoke detector program because Edwards was not even a firefighter.