Today, we are asking for everyone’s support to help us Sound the Alarm by donating or volunteering so that we can provide lifesaving services for people vulnerable to these crises.” “Every day across this country, home fires threaten families-but working smoke alarms can be the difference between survival and tragedy. “Smoke alarms cut the risk of dying in a home fire by half,” said American Red Cross President & CEO Gail McGovern.
WASHINGTON, D.C., APRIL 23, 2019-This weekend, the American Red Cross is launching a two-week Sound the Alarm home fire safety effort to install 100,000 free smoke alarms in 100 high-risk cities across the country. "We need to make sure that these smoke alarms work, especially (because of) what happened around the corner the last time," Bonaparte said.Visit to Help Save Lives and Make Homes Safer Across the Country from April 27 to May 12 He said residents should have fire alarms in the correct locations and prepare a fire safety plan, which should be practiced twice a year.Ĭrosland Park resident Faith Bonaparte said she was thankful her fire alarms were being checked, especially after someone died in a home in early January. "We are going to target about a third of the Crosland Park area and then we will make plans to come out here and target the additional areas," Fulbright said. He said the reason why homes in Crosland Park were getting new fire alarms was that the Aiken Department of Public Safety deemed that area of Aiken had a need. "We encourage everybody to have a working smoke alarm in the bedroom or sleeping area, outside of the sleeping area, including a common area and hallways and every level in the home," he said. Josh Fulbright, chief of community risk reduction of the South Carolina Office of the State Fire Marshal, said two-thirds of fire deaths are those who are over the age of 50, often due to smoke inhalation.
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