Improving fire safety outreaching and education is leading the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) to work with local emergency officials to install fire alarms in area homes.

Kyle Fire Department firefighter Matthew Sweet installs a smoke detector in a Kyle home. (photo by Moses Leos III)

It’s all part of ICT’s “We’re Out to Alarm Texas” program, which provides free fire alarms to fire departments during Fire Prevention Week, which was Oct. 7-13. The ICT and State Fir...