People who are hard of hearing in Derbyshire are to get special smoke alarms to help warn them of fires. The county's fire service has been handed a government grant to provide the detectors that vibrate to alert residents to a possible fire.
They can be worn around someone's neck or placed under a pillow.
Adam Hind, station manager at Nottingham Road fire station in Chaddesden, said they were a life-saving piece of equipment.
He added: "For a number of years the fire service has been going around fitting normal smoke alarms in domestic premises.
"It was realised that whilst we were doing this there was a section of the community that we weren't actually fitting."
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