This Community Risk Reduction Week (January 20-26), the American Red Cross of Georgia encourages everyone to follow important steps to prevent home fires. Over the past decade, the Red Cross Home Fire Campaign has saved more than 2,000 lives, installed nearly 3 million smoke alarms, made over 1.2 million households safer and served over 3.1 million people through in-home visits.
“Since launching the Home Fire Campaign in 2014, we’ve helped save more than 2,000 lives across the country by installing free smoke alarms and helping families create escape plans,” said Adelaide Kirk , Regional Disaster Officer for the American Red Cross of Georgia. “This Community Risk Reduction Week, help protect your family by testing your smoke alarms and practicing your two-minute escape plan with everyone in your household.”
As the Red Cross has adapted our mission over the years to meet the needs of communities and to help prevent deaths and injuries from home fires, our work remains critically important as home fires remain the most frequent disaster nationwide. This critical work is made possible through our volunteers and partners, who have helped us to install more than 2.6 million free smoke alarms and make more than 1 million households safer nationwide…