“Saved By The Beep”. It’s Test Your Smoke Alarm Day
Courtesy Barrie360.com
Dan BlakeleyPublished: Sep 28th, 2023 11:57am
Got a job for you today.
It’s easy.
It will only take a couple of minutes.
Go around the house and push the button to test your smoke alarms.
“In 2022, the Office of the Fire Marshal put out that we saw in Ontario, 133 fire fatalities, many of which were resulting from a lack of working smoke alarms in homes around the province … that is the highest number we’ve seen in 20 years, which is definitely startling,” said Barrie Fire and Emergency Service Public Educator, Kate Foster.
But before you can test your alarms, there have to be devices to test.
Barrie Deputy Fire Chief Carrie Clark told Barrie 360 that’s too often not the case, “When we go into a building for inspections or investigations after a fire, often we see the mounting rings on the ceiling, we see the pigtails of the electrical, but we don’t find the alarms where they need to be, and it is heartbreaking.”
Patricia is the Business Mentor and owner of Grow Vantage and a Past President of the Barrie Chamber of Commerce. She applies over 30 years of business experience (from start-up to corporate) to mentor entrepreneurs. Since 2011, she has held over 6,500 coaching and training sessions in-person and online. Through Ask For Directions Training, her entrepreneurial training program (and parent company Grow Vantage), and as a business coach, she works with start-ups who are new (or who have lost traction) to design, launch and grow their businesses. Along with 20 other expert instructors she teaches strategies in marketing, sales, communications, and finance, as well as practical techniques to increase productivity, and manage their businesses. In other words, everything entrepreneurs need to learn to grow and run their businesses successfully, and avoid the costly mistakes they can't even see coming - that lead to delays in growth and getting stuck.
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