Or purchase and install your own smoke alarm. Local fire service to see if your community has a smoke alarm initiative Outside of those three cities, check with your local Red Cross chapter or your In Everett on April 27, Tacoma on May 4 and Seattle on May 11. Volunteers are needed to scout out homes in need of smoke alarms, and to help install them. That is why you are advised to change smoke alarm batteries twice a year, each time you change your clock at the start or end of daylight savings time. The most common reason that a smoke alarm, while present, failed to sound is dead batteries.
The victim may have been near the point of ignition, been responsible for the ignition, attempted to fight the fire, was disabled or elderly. There usually were special factors at work in homes where someone died even though there was a working smoke alarm.While smoke alarms are in wide use in the U.S., an estimated 5 million homes do not have an alarm.The risk of dying in a home fire is 54% lower in a home with a working smoke alarm.Three of every five home fire deaths in recent years were in homes that had no smoke alarm or had a smoke alarm that wasn’t working.Were saved by the early warning smoke alarms provide.Īmply confirms the critical importance of alarms in home fire safety. In fact, by Installing all those alarms, the Red CrossĮstimates it has saved 522 lives - people who might have died in home fires but Stages of a fire, can give residents time to escape the home while escape is Quickly, and smoke spreads even more quickly. There is no charge for the alarm or the installation. Red Cross volunteers do the installation, and Since 2014, the Red Cross has installed 1.6 million alarms in Launched its Home Fire Campaign in 2014, aiming to cut home fire deaths by 25%īy putting smoke alarms in homes than did not have them or did not have a Further, those homeįires kill more than 2,500 people a year, and injure nearly 12,000 more. To NFPA statistics, or one home fire every 88 seconds. Number of home fires is deeply troubling - more than 350,000 a year, according Organization, launched in 1896, that works to reduce death, injury and Published recently by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), a non-profit Mobilizing hundreds of volunteers with the goal of reducing home fire deaths andĪnswer can be found in a study called “Smoke Alarms in U.S. Here in the Northwest Region, three events on April 27, May 4 and May 11 willįocus installation efforts on neighborhoods in Everett, Seattle and Tacoma, Second annual Red Cross Sound-the-Alarm campaign will lead to 100,000 new smokeĪlarms being installed in 100 at-risk communities throughout all 50 states.
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