Carbon Monoxide and Smoke Alarms

Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Inspection Program

Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarms SAVE LIVES! In order to increase public safety, the Firefighters from the Kapuskasing Fire Department will visit and inspect all dwellings (houses & apartments) in our community over the course of the next five (5) years to ensure smoke and carbon monoxide alarms are present and working. 

Ontario's Fire Code requires that homes have a working smoke alarm on each floor and outside each sleeping area. Carbon monoxide alarms are also required outside sleeping areas if the home has an attached garage, a wood stove or a fuel-fired appliance. 

Starting in 2025, inspections will take place annually from mid-April to mid-October and Firefighters will:

• Visit select residential areas from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. during the week (Monday to Friday) and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturdays.
•  Inspect and test alarms
• Share information on Fire Safety

In order to increase the level of fire safety in our community, the Kapuskasing Fire Department requests everyone's cooperation. 

For 2025, Firefighter will inspect dwellings located on the following streets:

Carbon Monoxide Alarms

Often called the invisible killer, carbon monoxide (CO) is an invisible, odourless, colourless gas created when fuels (such as gasoline, wood, natural gas, propane, kerosene, heating oil) burn incompletely. 

The Kapuskasing Fire Department would like to remind you that if you have fuel burning appliances or an attached garage, you are required by law to have a working CO alarms outside every sleeping area.