Program Sustainability

Sustaining your Smoke Alarm Installation Program will require the proper level of funding to ensure your department has enough smoke alarms available to meet your community’s needs. Your needs assessment should take into consideration maintaining the alarms required to make post incident installations, meet the needs of citizen requested alarms and supplying your organization with the alarms required for targeted installation campaigns.

Additionally, your organization will need to ensure the proper mechanism exists to maintain and manage your request phone messages, e-mails and web requests. A process should be in place to ensure any requests that your department receives are recorded and passed on to the proper fire companies for appointments and installations in a short timeframe. Your organization also needs an internal process in place to ensure all data is collected and reported to a central location. Once received, this information must be recorded and reported back to the fire companies to show the positive impact they are having in their fire districts and communities.