Fire Safety Through Voluntary Tax Check Offs

(Sacramento) – The mother of two young girls who died in a house fire because their home was not equipped with a smoke detector is lending her support to legislation from California Assemblymember Juan Arambula (D-Fresno). Arambula’s Assembly Bill 1812 will create a new tax check off program to fund the installation of smoke detectors in low income families’ homes statewide. Sylvia Escalante says she’s supporting AB 1812 because she doesn’t want other families to experience a similar tragedy to the one that took her eight and nine year old daughters’ lives. AB 1812 has already been approved unanimously by the Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee. Here’s more in an Assembly Web Report.