“In just one day, our teams could help save a neighbor’s life.” “Sound the Alarm is a meaningful way to be part of a larger movement while directly helping local families,” said Ana Romero, Red Cross Regional Preparedness Manager. Working with local fire departments and other community partners, Red Cross volunteers visit high-risk neighborhoods, install free smoke alarms and provide residents with safety education on how to prevent home fires, what to do if a fire starts and how to create an evacuation plan. Sound the Alarm is a critical part of this campaign. Launched in October 2014, the Red Cross Home Fire Campaign aims to prevent deaths and injuries from home fires. That’s why over three weekends in May, American Red Cross Northern California Coastal Region volunteers and partners installed 1,217 free smoke alarms and made 450 homes safer as part of the Sound the Alarm program. and remain one of the most frequent disasters across the region - but having working smoke alarms can cut the risk of death by half. Home fires claim seven lives every day in the U.S. "We are happy to have the help of the National Guard, the city of Lorain and a community organization, like the Ambassador Brothers, to make a large neighborhood of Lorain a safer place to live," said Katie Myers-Griffith, executive director of the American Red Cross Lake Erie/Heartland Chapter. "This initiative is meant to reduce the number of people who die in home fires by 25 percent over a five-year period."Įach year, more than 3,800 people die in fire-related deaths nationwide, while approximately 18,300 more suffer injuries in fires. More than half of these injuries and deaths occur at night while the occupants are sleeping.Īlthough a fire safety poll commissioned by the American Red Cross showed most adults surveyed believe it takes several minutes to escape a burning home, experts say in most cases, residents have less than two minutes to safely escape.Photo by Jenny Arrieta/American Red Cross LORAIN, OH (WOIO) - The American Red Cross will join forces with the Ohio National Guard, city of Lorain and Ambassador Brothers to install free smoke detectors in hundreds of homes on Saturday. Red Cross volunteers will also provide fire safety education to residents and supply free batteries to homeowners for existing smoke detectors.
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