South Yorkshire: More than 80,000 homes do not have smoke alarms

Of all the homes visited by South Yorkshire Fire & Rescue since 2010 as part of their home safety check service, over 40,000 had never had smoke alarms fitted before.

A further 42,000 homes had smoke alarms, but they weren’t working properly, either because the battery was flat or had been removed, or because they had been wrongly installed.