Local UPCOG Appeals Board to Donate Smoke Detectors

The Upper Pine Creek Council of Governments, UPCOG, Appeals Board was established in 2004 and for the last seven years has collected a modest fee for each appeals hearing. IN an effort to use that money in a way that will do the most good, the Appeals Board has donated 250 smoke detectors to the counties served by UPCOG. Smoke detectors have been proven to greatly reduce the potential for serious injury and loss of life by alerting people in the early stages of a fire. UPCOG has donated 100 smoke detectors to both Potter and Tioga Counties and another 50 to McKean County.