SAFETY FIRST! As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, the Red Cross is adapting Sound the Alarm activities to protect the people we serve and our volunteers. Sound the Alarm may look different this year but our lifesaving mission to make families and communities safer from home fire continues.
This spring, join our national movement and pledge to keep your family safe by taking 2 simple steps: Practice your 2-minute escape drill and test your smoke alarms monthly.
Use our worksheet to draw your home’s floor plan and plot your escape routes.
Test your smoke alarms monthly by pressing the test button.
Interested in learning more about how to prepare your home and family against a home fire? Sign up for a virtual home fire safety presentation from your local Red Cross. If needed, you will also be put on our list to receive a FREE smoke alarm installation for your household when it is safe to do so.
Volunteer to help families affected by home fires. *Not available in all locations.
Help families prepare for, respond to and recover from home fires.
Donate to support Home Fire Relief and help save lives.
Every day, seven people die in home fires, most often in homes without working smoke alarms. That’s why the American Red Cross launched our Home Fire Campaign in 2014 to save lives.
Sound the Alarm is a critical part of the campaign. Through our home visits, we’ve installed more than 2.1 million free smoke alarms and prepared more than 2.3 million people for home fires.
916 lives saved
2,225,715 smoke alarms installed
941,814 households made safer
1,686,463 youth reached through campaign
Prepare, respond and help families recover from home fires.