VIDEO: One Spokane manufactured home owner is crediting smoke alarms for alerting her to a fire that broke out in her home.
According to a release from the Spokane Fire Department (SFD), the smoke alarms, which were installed by SFD's Smoke Alarm Install Program, allowed the woman and her two great grandchildren to safely evacuate.
"If it hadn't have gone off, I wouldn't have gotten the boys out," the woman told SFD.
Crews were dispatched to the area of the 2000 block of South Inland Empire Way at approximately 8:45 p.m. on Thursday, July 30, for reports of a house fire. The very same crew had visited the area a little more than a year ago to install free smoke alarms in the home.
The home owner, identified by SFD as Cheryl, recounted feeling grateful on that day back in 2019 because she lived on a fixed income and didn't know when she'd be able to buy alarms for her home.