This is National Fire Prevention week - check your smoke detector

This week is National Fire prevention Week, and state officials are urging all Floridians to be safe with outdoor fires.

We have had a pretty wet summer which makes outdoor burning a little safer, but now we are entering the dry fall and winter season when the risk of wildfires increases.

Since the beginning of the year, 1,933 wildfires have burned 47,256 acres throughout Florida.

Nearly 80 percent of all wildfires in Florida are caused by human carelessness.

Besides taking care with outdoor fires, you should also check to make sure you have a smoke detector installed in your home, and make sure that the batteries in the smoke detector work.

Statistics show that in Florida only 40 percent of homes that suffered fires had smoke detectors, and of those only 25 percent were actually working.

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