A Chattanooga woman has a working smoke detector and the firefighter who installed it to thank for saving her life.
Recently, a candle got out of control in Carrie Harris's kitchen.
She reached out to the Chattanooga Fire Department to ask for help replacing the batteries in her existing smoke detector.
Senior Firefighter Allen Green, the CFD’s Fire & Life Safety Educator, brought new batteries to Ms. Harris’ house and installed them in her smoke alarm near her bedrooms. But he didn't stop there.
He also added two new smoke alarms outside of her kitchen for additional protection.
Only two days after that, Harris and her daughter were sleeping in her residence when she heard the new smoke alarms going off.
She rushed to the kitchen where she found flames coming from a candle she thought she had extinguished the night before.