It’s a sound that no one wants to hear in the middle of the night, the smoke alarm.
It was about four years ago at his Kentucky home when Jason Hurdich couldn’t hear his smoke alarm going off; he’s deaf. Now thanks to a program through Fire Safe South Carolina he has piece of mind. Hurdich was approved for a specially designed fire alarm that was installed Monday. It’s a device that hooks up to a smoke alarm that vibrates to wake a hearing-impaired person up.
Josh Fulbright, Chief of Community Risk Reduction with the South Carolina Fire Marshall’s Office said anyone over the age of 6-years-old can apply for one.
Once approved, Fulbright says the units will be delivered and installed by a local firefighter to make sure it’s working properly. He says the state is getting applications every other day.
"It's great that we have the availability of these resources,” said Fulbright. “We want to make sure we get the applications and resources processed as quickly as possible."