Crawfordsville Fire Department Mobile Integrated Health Program Receives Donations For Smoke Detectors

Crawfordsville Fire Department Mobile Integrated Health (MIH) program received generous donations from B&R Fire Protection Inc., Clore Insurance Group, and Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance – Bechtel Agency to purchase around 50 First Alert brand 10-year sealed lithium battery smoke detectors. The smoke detectors will be used for patients in the Chronic Disease Program through Crawfordsville Fire Department’s Mobile Integrated Health Division.

Lyndsey Sparrow, a Social Worker for the Crawfordsville Fire Department Mobile Integrated Health Division, will provide smoke detectors for patients if she finds something of concern during a Home Safety Assessment. These safety assessments are general checks for the homes of patients who are referred for the Chronic Disease Program. The home inspections include outer home checks, fall hazards such as stairs, hand railings, and cracks in the sidewalk, inside the home checks are for adequate lighting, accessibility, organized medications, non-slip surfaces, fire safety, and other checks to mitigate the risk of needing paramedics. Sparrow will receive training on how to properly install a smoke detector and if it is determined during the Home Safety Assessment that the smoke detectors in the home are non-functioning or are missing, Sparrow will provide and install a new smoke detector for the patient.

“The Crawfordsville Fire Department Community Paramedicine Program is extremely grateful for our generous partners and their donations. Thank you to Clore Insurance, B&R Fire, and Darrin Bechtel of Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance – Bechtel Agency.  Due to their kind contributions, we are now able to provide these life-saving devices in our clients’ homes” said Lyndsey Sparrow.

Clore Insurance and Bechtel Agency donated funds to help purchase the smoke detectors that B&R Fire Protection is supplying to the fire department at cost. B&R also donated funds to help purchase the First Alert smoke detectors. “As I wrote the check for our donation, my daughter Kinley observed and inquired about the nature of it. I explained the purpose and with hopeful eyes she asked ‘Daddy, can I donate too?’. She was so excited” Said Derrick Clore, President of Clore Insurance Group. “When she returned, she handed me $50 which was half of her total savings. She just wanted to help people”.