Thousands of Chicagoans are flocking to fire stations to pick up free smoke detectors.

The Chicago Fire Department has given away 5,000 smoke detectors after six children died in a Rogers Park fire over Labor Day weekend.

There weren’t any working smoke detectors in that apartment.

Assistant Deputy Fire Commissioner Bob Hoff says the fire has inspired people to be more cautious in their own homes.

“But I think for young children to be, the helpless children to be killed in a fire that didn’t have a chance and they’re lives could’ve been saved with smoke detectors, I think that’s what breaks a lot of hearts,” Hoff says.

Smoke detectors are free at any fire station.