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According to the decree implementing the law passed in March 2010, the householder must now ensure the maintenance and operation of the device.

For rentals, furnished accommodation, the staff housing and homes, installation and maintenance of smoke detector will fall to the owner.

In France, more than 800 people die each year in residential fires and more than 10 000 are seriously injured. The number of fires has doubled in the last twenty years and claims 250,000 house fires are reported annually to insurance, is a fire every 2 minutes.

Many countries that have reduced the number of fires in two by encouraging their citizens to be equipped with detectors smoke alarms autonomous. While the penetration rate in Norway is 98% and 89% in England, in France it is only 2%.

Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet and Benoist Appeared welcome the involvement of parliamentarians who have allowed the adoption of this text is so important to the security of French. "We can save lives with simple steps and with the decree state is mobilized by encouraging every household to be equipped with sensors," added the two ministers.