SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) – Organizers say volunteers installed more than 600 smoke detectors in Sioux City homes during a fire safety blitz. The Sioux City Journal says more than 100 volunteers teamed up to visit around 1,600 homes Saturday in an area that accounted for 7 percent of Sioux City’s fires in 2015 although occupying just 1 percent of the land inside city limits.

As one volunteer on each team installed a detector, other team members talked to residents about fire safety.