
That’s why the American Red Cross is rallying volunteers to install 50,000 free smoke alarms nationwide, as part of our Sound the Alarm events.
This May we’ll:
Join us for a rewarding day at a Sound the Alarm event near you and invite others to fundraise or simply donate to help save lives.
Interested in learning more about how to prepare your home and family against a home fire? Sign up for a home fire safety visit, including a FREE smoke alarm installation for your household, from your local Red Cross.
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.
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 2.2 million free smoke alarms and prepared more than 2.5 million people for home fires.
1,331 lives saved
2,380,233 smoke alarms installed
1,009,643 households made safer
2,642,934 people served through home visits
Prepare, respond and help families recover from home fires.