Nearly 3 years before last week's deadly row house fire in Philadelphia that killed a dozen people, a bill to upgrade smoke alarms and prevent such tragedies was introduced in the Pennsylvania state Legislature. But the bill never came up for a vote.
, Polinchock noted that in 2018 Pennsylvania had the third-highest rate of civilian fire deaths in the country and that most of those fatalities were due to “no working smoke alarms,” either because the batteries had been removed “or were dead.”
A woman at the scene of a deadly row house fire on Jan. 5 in the Fairmount neighborhood of Philadelphia.The seven smoke alarms in the Philadelphia row house were the kind that required batteries to be replaced every few months, Philadelphia Fire Commissioner Adam Thiel said Tuesday.
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