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National fire data indicates that smoke detectors are present in around 44 percent of fires. But in many cases, they are not actually working.
A veto-proof majority of the New York City Council has signed on as co-sponsors of a law that would push residents to install a kind of smoke detector that might be more likely to save lives than the type frequently found in city homes.
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