Saturday morning, the American Red Cross and the Osceola County Fire Department teamed up in Kissimmee installing free smoke alarms making homes safer. Volunteers also educated residents about home fire safety.
Using a door-step education approach, volunteers provided safety education, starting at 10 a.m. from the Buenaventura Lakes Community Center. Volunteers and members of the fire department installed smoke alarms throughout the community. Did you know the American Red Cross responds to a disaster every 8 minutes? And the vast majority are home fires, claiming 7 lives every day. But having working smoke alarms can cut the risk of death by half. That’s why the Red Cross launched the Home Fire Campaign in 2014.
At these events, Red Cross volunteers, local fire departments and community partners go door-to-door in neighborhoods vulnerable to home fires, installing free smoke alarms and sharing information on the causes of home fires, what to do if a fire starts and how to create an escape plan.
Through December 2022, this program has installed more than 2.4 million free smoke alarms nationwide and made 1 million families safer.
Visit SoundTheAlarm.org to learn more, or to volunteer for an event
