"Be Alarmed" Smoke Detector Program


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Effective August 1st, 2020 the Pontiac Fire Department is teaming up with the Office of the Illinois State Fire Marshal and the Illinois Fire Safety Alliance to bring this program to the Pontiac community.  Please contact the Pontiac Fire Department via email at pontiacfd@pontiac.org or call (815)842-3225 if you are interested in learning more about this program. 

Program Overview: “Be Alarmed!” is a fire safety education and smoke alarm installation program administered cooperatively between the Illinois Fire Safety Alliance (IFSA) and the Office of the Illinois State Fire Marshal (OSFM). The program distributes fire safety education materials and 10-year sealed battery smoke alarms to fire departments in the state of Illinois. The fire departments then deliver the education and install smoke alarms in at-risk homes within their communities while recording data for reporting purposes. Smoke alarms can only be distributed to home-owners per the program’s guidelines.  Both the educational materials and smoke alarms are provided to fire departments at no cost as a result of funding from both the IFSA and OSFM with additional assistance from Kidde and Menards.

Purpose & Objectives: The program was developed to educate Illinois residents on the dangers of fire in the home and how to prevent fires from occurring in the home, as well as to ensure there are working smoke alarms properly installed in homes. By providing 10-year sealed battery smoke alarms, it ensures that the power source cannot be removed from the unit and, if properly maintained, will last the life of the device.

The program seeks to:

1. Educate Illinois residents, young and old, on home fire safety and prevention methods.

2. Reduce the number of fire-related injuries in Illinois.

3. Reduce the number of fire-related deaths in Illinois.

 4. Identify the reason for non-working smoke alarms in Illinois homes.


Smoke Alarm Installation Request Form

  2. Notice:

    You MUST be a resident of the City of Pontiac and own the property for which the alarms will be installed. Firefighters are required to install the alarms. As a requirement of the program, we cannot hand them out to you at the fire station.

  7. You MUST live within the city of Pontiac.

  13. This number will not be shared with any outside organization, it is only for us to be able to contact you to set up installation.


  14. Do you own or rent your home?*

    If you rent, we will follow up with your landlord/property management to get the required detectors installed in your home.

  16. Do you have working smoke alarms in your home?*

  17. If your home is equipped with interconnected alarms, we can’t remove/replace those. We can add alarms to replace expired/non-functional alarms, but they will not be interconnected.

  19. Include rooms that are used for sleeping purposes only.

  20. Include the basement in this number, but not the attic unless it is an occupied floor with a bedroom, for example.

  22. Any home with fuel-fired appliances such as gas stoves/ovens, gas furnaces, or gas dryers are required by law to have a CO alarm within 15 feet of every sleeping room.

  23. Best time to contact you to install the alarms?*

    We will contact you to set up a convenient time for us to come install the alarms in your home.

  25. What is the best email address we can use to contact you? If you do not have one, please leave blank.

  29. * Indicates a required field

    30. Leave This Blank:

  32. This field is not part of the form submission.

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