Remember Smokey the Bear’s slogan, “Only you can prevent forest fires!” In the wake of a host of preventable building fires, including in the Greater Atlanta area, a school fire and a house fire which took four lives from the same family due to a surviving child having played with a lighter, it is very appropriate to add, “Only you can prevent building fires.” In the case of both of these recent fires, as with so many others, the lack of working smoke detectors led to actual or potential tragedies.