The city’s assistant fire chief gives much of the credit to an education campaign boosted by a federal grant and money from the city. The department bought and distributed almost 8,000 DVDs on fire prevention. They came in four languages — English, Spanish, Somali and Russian — and were given to apartment-building managers to hand out to tenants.
There were also 5,400 “butt buckets,” a safe place to discard cigarette butts, and almost 1,000 StoveTop FireStops, a passive fire extinguisher that fastens with a magnet to a range hood and is activated by flames.
