The American Red Cross Western North Carolina Chapter will hold a Sound the Alarm event on Saturday, May 4th in the Wolfpen community with Hendersonville Fire Department during a two-week national effort to install 100,000 free smoke alarms.
Home fires kill seven people every day in the U.S.—most often, in homes without working smoke alarms. To prevent needless tragedies in the Wolfpen community, Red Cross and Hendersonville Fire Department are rallying local volunteers to install 300 free smoke alarms, as part of a national push of Sound the Alarm events in 100 high-risk cities from April 27 to May 12 (visit SoundTheAlarm.org for details).
WHAT: Sound the Alarm home fire safety and smoke alarm installation event in the Wolfpen community, where volunteers will canvass neighborhoods to install free smoke alarms, replace batteries in existing alarms and help families create home fire escape plans.
WHERE: 5 Gray Wolf Lane, Hendersonville NC 28792
WHEN: Training at 9:00am, smoke alarm installations from 10:00am to 4:30pm
WHO: Red Cross volunteers and Hendersonville Fire Department
Sound the Alarm events are part of the Home Fire Campaign, which the Red Cross launched in 2014 to reduce fire deaths and injuries. So far, it has reached more than 1.7 million people and saved more than 500 lives nationwide. In the Charlotte Metro Chapter, the American Red Cross and local partners have:
Installed more than 4,245 free smoke alarmsMade more than 1,573 households saferReached more than 1,715 children through youth preparedness programs
Home fires also account for the majority of disasters that the Red Cross responds to every eight minutes in the U.S. Visit redcross.org to learn more about our work.
