Detectors installed Tuesday alert of fire Wednesday

No damage to house after LCFD, Red Cross canvas neighborhood day before.

  • Lake City Assistant Fire Chief Ret Tompkins stops at a residence Tuesday to help install smoke detectors and provide disaster preparedness information. (COURTESY LAKE CITY FIRE DEPARTMENT)
    Lake City Assistant Fire Chief Ret Tompkins stops at a residence Tuesday to help install smoke detectors and provide disaster preparedness information. (COURTESY LAKE CITY FIRE DEPARTMENT)

    The value of a smoke detector was proven again Wednesday morning.

    Less than a day after members of the Lake City Fire Department and American Red Cross installed smoke detectors along NE Martin Luther …