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Firefighters to offer home smoke detectors.
Byline: DORA ANN REAVES
Summerville firefighters will be knocking on Brownsville doors Saturday, but not to alarm residents.
Instead, they want to help protect neighborhood residents from the dangers of fire by offering a smoke detector checkup and free smoke detectors.
Summerville Fire Chief Robert Brown said the Public Safety Department received a generous donation of 250 smoke detectors from the North Main Street Wal-Mart, Lowe's and Home Depot.
"We've always had an ongoing smoke detector program," Brown said, but this donation allows the department to make a concentrated effort in the neighborhood.
"The last fire death we had …
