Peoria Fire Department to host press event on December 2
November 26, 2025 (PEORIA, IL) The Peoria Fire Department has officially installed 1,000 smoke alarms through the “Be Alarmed! Smoke Alarm Installation Program, in collaboration with Illinois Fire Safety Alliance Camp I Am Me (CIAM) and the Offices of the Illinois State Fire Marshal (OSFM). The Peoria Fire Department will receive a plaque from CIAM to acknowledge this achievement at a press event on Tuesday, December 2 at 11 a.m. at Peoria Fire Central, 505 NE Monroe.
The Peoria Fire Department is only the fifth fire department in the state of Illinois to install 1,000 alarms through the program over the past two years.
“Participating in the Be Alarmed! Smoke Alarm Installation Program through the Illinois Fire Safety Alliance has been a tremendous benefit to not only the Peoria Fire Department, but to the entire city of Peoria,” Peoria Fire Department Division Chief of Prevention Nate Rice said. “We aim to ensure that every home in Peoria is equipped with working smoke alarms because we know that they save lives. The Peoria Fire Department has seen a decrease in fire injuries and fire deaths over the past two years and utilizing the Be Alarmed! program has contributed to this success.”
The Be Alarmed! Smoke Alarm Installation Program is a fire safety education and smoke alarm installation program administered cooperatively between CIAM and OSFM. The program distributes fire safety education materials and 10-year sealed battery smoke alarms to fire departments in the state of Illinois. The fire departments then deliver the educational materials while installing smoke alarms in at-risk homes within their communities at no cost to the residents.
Peoria residents can sign up for smoke alarm installations through the program on the City of Peoria website.