Members of the Fallston Volunteer Fire Company will be visiting neighborhoods along Pleasantville Road between Fallston and Forest Hill Thursday evening to offer free home safety checks and hand out free smoke detectors to those who need them.
The neighborhoods where the visits are planned had a tragic last month that included a fatal tree trimming accident and two house fires, one of which also resulted in a fatality, County Councilman Joe Woods, who represents the area, said.
Woods, a former Fallston fire chief who remains active in the fire company, announced the planned safety visits at Tuesday's county council session.
Fire company members will be in neighborhoods along Pleasantville Road between Route 152 and High Point Road between 6 and 9 p.m. Thursday, Woods said.
They will go door-to-door offering the safety checks and other information, as well as the smoke detectors, Woods said. Fire company members will help people with smoke detector installation if it's requested.
Woods also noted that free smoke detectors are available at any firehouse in the county.
On Aug. 11, a Glen Burnie man was killed in a commercial tree trimming accident in the 1700 block of Shanwick Court. On Aug. 25, an elderly man died in a fire in a home in the 1800 block of Creston Road. Both neighborhoods where the deaths occurred are off Pleasantville Road.
It was also announced at Tuesday's county council meeting that the council will not meet on Tuesday, Sept. 20.
Council President Billy Boniface said he decided to cancel the session because there was no pending legislative agenda for that evening.