polewmuseum.blogg.se

“We had no idea when we started how moving this initiative would be,” Kiefer said. Together, Red Cross and local fire departments are partnering to build fire safety and awareness while volunteering to install free 10-year smoke detectors in area homes. Lara Kiefer, executive director of American Red Cross Lake Erie/Heartland Chapter, has made promoting this program a priority in her counties.

Locally the push to continue the trend toward safety and education is being made through the teaming up of American Red Cross Lake Erie Heartland Chapter and area fire departments. Red Cross volunteers, along with local fire departments and other partners, are ready and willing to visit any homeowner who would like to have a free smoke alarm installed, and all it takes is a few moments of time and a willingness to hear some advice on aiding families in both fire prevention and safety education. The American Red Cross wants to improve the odds and save lives, and that is why it launched the Home Fire Campaign in 2014.Ī critical part of the campaign is Sound the Alarm, a program that promotes home fire safety as well as smoke alarm installation. Sadly children and the elderly disproportionately lose their lives. Every day in America seven people die in home fires, most in homes that lack working smoke alarms.