On Tuesady 4 October 2022, Luxembourg's Minister for Home Affairs, Taina Bofferding, during a press conference recalled that smoke detectors will be compulsory in every home in the Grand Duchy from 1 January 2023.
Even if the usefulness and importance of smoke detectors is well established, Minister Bofferding called on tenants and owners of apartments or houses to comply with the law. Indeed, the smoke detector is a means of prevention within everyone's reach which makes it possible to alert the occupant of a dwelling in a situation of start a fire so that they can quickly get to safety. "Your safety and your survival are at stake and it is important to install one now if you don't have one yet!", said Minister Bofferding during the press conference, which is also part of the National Prevention Day which takes place on 10 October of each year. On average, one person per year dies, mainly due to smoke inhalation poisoning. Fires during the night can thus surprise the victims in full sleep and the fumes can speard quickly.
Thus the government had taken the initiative to make the installation of smoke detectors compulsory in homes, supported in its action by the fact that installing a smoke detector reduces the number of victims up to a quarter in the neighbouring countries.
The rauchmelder.lu website will be updated and as part of the National Prevention Day, the Grand Ducal Fire and Rescue Corps (Corps grand-ducal d'incendie et de secours - CGDIS) prevention firefighters will be present on Monday 10 October 2022 in around ten locations across the country to inform the population about the need to install smoke detectors.
