The Lindenwood Park Neighborhood Association started a safety committee in late 2020. The safety committee meets each quarter virtually (Jan, Apr, Jul, and Oct). If you’d like to join the committee, send an email to safety@lindenwoodpark.org.
Here are some tips for a safer neighborhood:
- Lock your car at night.
- Do not leave valuables in your car.
- Make sure all your streetlights are working, if not notify the Citizen Service Bureau (314-622-4800).
- If your alley lights are not working, call Ameren (314-342-1000).
- Get to know your neighbors.
- Purchase a doorbell or other cameras for your house.
- Close windows and blinds at night.
- If you see something suspicious, call 911.
- For non-emergencies call 314-231-1212.
- Keep your exterior house lights on at night.
- Lock all your garage doors.
- Stay current with crime trends for our neighborhood.
- Do not announce on social media that you are away from your home.
- Stop mail/newspapers and have neighbors keep any eye on your property while on vacation.
- You can purchase a Club (steering wheel lock) from our shop.
- To get the weekly email on crimes in the neighborhood email Officer Gus Karagiannis at gkaragiannis@slmpd.org
- For city crime statistics use this link: https://www.slmpd.org/crime_stats.shtml
- The police department is collecting the location of cameras in the neighborhood if needed during a investigation. Either use safety@lindenwoodpark.org and gkaragiannis@slmpd.org to provide that info.
If you have any questions or suggestions for the safety committee, email the committee at safety@lindenwoodpark.org.
Here is a list of Fire Safety tips:
- Put a smoke alarm on every level of your home and outside each sleeping area.
Put a smoke alarm inside every bedroom. - Make sure your smoke alarms work. Test your smoke alarms. When you push the test button, you
should hear a loud noise. If you don’t hear the noise, you need a new battery or a new alarm. - Make sure the smoke alarm always has a good battery.
Put a new battery in the alarm every year. - Smoke alarms with long-life batteries will work for up to 10 years.
You do not change the battery. - Smoke alarms do not last forever.
Replace every 10 years. Newer smoke alarms provide the 10 year date. - Tell your family what to do if they hear the smoke alarm. Make an escape plan so everyone knows
how to get out fast. Pick a meeting place outside the home where everyone will meet. Some children
and older adults cannot hear the smoke alarm when they are sleeping. Make a plan for how to wake
them up. Practice your escape plan with everyone in your family two times each year. - Install home fire sprinklers in your home. Home fire sprinklers and working smoke alarms greatly
increase your chance of surviving a fire. Sprinklers are affordable and they can increase your property
value and lower your insurance rates. - Portable heaters should be avoided but where used they need their space. Keep anything that can
burn at least three feet away. - Install 1/8 inch or smaller, noncombustible corrosion-resistant mesh screening that cannot burn on
attic/soffit vents and around wood decks to keep out embers. Install spark arrestors on fire place
chimneys or wood stove vents. - Keep all items that can burn away from your home. Clean leaves from your gutters. Clear dead leaves
and branches from shrubs and trees.