
The effort was part of Biddeford’s partnership with the Red Cross to promote fire safety, the third time it’s done so since 2014. Firefighters and students installed or replaced a total of 70 smoke alarms on Saturday. According to the Fire Department, 111 lives nationwide have been saved since the program’s inception, and 499,803 smoke alarms have been installed across the country.
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