Detectors Get Credit for Saving 19 Lives
In Peterborough, Ontario, 19 persons are alive today who might have died in fires in 1979 if bylaw 1977-60 had not been passed—and enforced.
Peterborough bylaw 1977-60, which establishes minimum property standards for all residential occupancies, includes life-saving section 31 which requires every dwelling unit to have reliable products-of-combustions smoke detectors.
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