A smoke-detector check of homes in a neighborhood on Oshkosh’s south side found eight percent didn’t have any.
Fire Department spokesman John Holland says calls that surprising and disappointing.
He says that figure doesn’t include houses that had detectors, but they didn’t work.
Holland says smoke detectors are cheap, at about $5, or free from the department. He adds that they’re not new technology either.
Only 20 percent of houses had the correct number of working detectors.
Firefighters went door-to-door this month for the annual Detector Trek. They gave out 130 of them, and in a typical year the total is around 100.
