Home fire safety visits on Saturday, May 4
Liverpool, April 16, 2024 — The Central and Northern New York Chapter of the American Red Cross and partners are offering free smoke alarm installations for City of Syracuse residents during a Sound the Alarm home fire safety event on Saturday, May 4.
“Home fires claim seven lives every day in the U.S. — but having working smoke alarms can cut the risk of death by half,” said Lisa Smith, executive director of the Central and Northern New York Chapter “That’s why we’re rallying volunteers to install free smoke alarms in homes and provide fire safety information.”
Syracuse residents can register at redcross.org/staeny for a home fire safety visit on Saturday, May 4. Volunteers will also share information on the causes of home fires, how to prevent them, what to do if a fire starts and how to create an escape plan.
While volunteers will focus on the Syracuse area on May 4, home visits in other local communities may be accommodated that day or will be scheduled for another date.
Syracuse Event Part of National Campaign Local Sound the Alarm events like this one are a critical part of the national Red Cross Home Fire Campaign, which has helped save more than 2,000 lives, including at least 112 in the Eastern New York Region, since launching in October 2014. Locally during this time, Red Cross volunteers and local partners have installed nearly 43,000 free smoke alarms and made more than 18,250 households safer.
This work is made possible thanks to generous financial donations from regional partners: National Grid, State Farm, Stewart’s Shops and Hannay Reels.
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