FREDERICTON - Tammy Nash says a smoke detector likely saved her son’s life when their family home caught fire in 2010 on the Sitansisk First Nation in central New Brunswick.

Nash, director of the local Maqiyahtimok Centre, says her then 14-year-old son was asleep on the couch when the fire broke out. The smoke detector’s alarm woke him up and he escaped before their house burned to the ground.