Launched by Surrey, British Columbia in October 2008, HomeSafe is a proactive, evidence-based fire prevention program that uses local fire and demographic data to target fire hotspots in the community for door-to-door firefighter visits and smoke alarm giveaways. Formal evaluation showed that in its first two years alone, HomeSafe reduced the annual fire rate in Surrey’s highest risk homes by 64% and prevented an estimated $1.26 million in fire losses. No equivalent program, based on this process or evaluated in the same manner, exists anywhere else in North America.
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