The payoff from Home Fire has been impressive. Working smoke alarms can save lives, which is why the Red Cross launched its Home Fire Campaign in 2014 - to reduce home fire deaths by installing alarms in homes that lack them. Fire victims are most likely to be very young or very old.īut although you can’t always prevent a fire from starting, you can protect life and property by outfitting your home with smoke alarms that will alert you early enough to get everyone outside to safety. According to figures from the American Red Cross, those fires kill an average of seven people each day, injure another 30 and do $7 billion worth of damage each year. Statistics show that an average of 350,000 American homes do catch fire each year.

A shorted wire inside a wall or an overloaded extension cord can overwhelm all your planning and set off a blaze that can be devastating. Try as you will, there is no way to make your home 100 percent safe from fire. He says usually that means the batteries are too old.By Gordon Williams, American Red Cross Volunteer North says many times they don’t have a smoke alarm or they have one, but it didn’t go off. “I get to go out and I actually see the devastation from the fires, and many times as we are interviewing clients to provide assistance to them, you know one of the questions we ask, is did you have smoke alarms and did they go off,” said North. He’s been a volunteer at the Red Cross for 10 years, and is on the Disaster Action Team. It’s something Doug North has seen throughout his career. “Every home should have a working smoke detector,” said Lisa Smith, executive director of the Central and Northern New York Chapter of the American Red Cross.īut not everyone does. Volunteers will install up to three smoke alarms in each home or apartment. There’s already 40 appointments in the books for Saturday. Roughly 60 volunteers will be installing over 100 free smoke alarms. The American Red Cross is going door-to-door on Syracuse’s near Westside neighborhood on Saturday, May 6th. The Central and Northern New York Chapter of the American Red Cross is doing just that through its annual Sound the Alarm campaign.

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