We are sounding the Alarm to save lives in New Haven and Greater Providence and we need your help!
Every day seven people are killed and another 36 people suffer injuries as a result of home fires. And annually, the American Red Cross responds to nearly 64,000 disasters - the vast
majority of which are home fires.
To save lives and help end fire tragedies, the Red Cross launched a nationwide Home Fire Campaign in 2014. The goal of the campaign is to reduce the number of home fire deaths and injuries by 25 percent. The campaign includes Sound the Alarm, a series of home fire safety and FREE smoke alarm installation events and we are hosting two this spring in our area!
On Saturday, April 28, 2018 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., in New Haven and on Saturday, May 5, 2018
from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Greater Providence
the Connecticut and Rhode Island Region of the Red Cross will be holding a home fire safety and FREE smoke alarm installation events with a goal to install 1,000 FREE smoke alarms on each day and we need YOU to make it happen!
You can help make your community safer in the following ways:
Volunteer!
We are looking for volunteers to help us canvass neighborhoods in advance of the event dates and to make FREE home fire safety visits in these communities. You can sign up as an individual or as a team. Our local Red Cross team will provide all the training you need to spend an afternoon saving lives!
To volunteer in the New Haven Area:
To volunteer in the Greater Providence Area:
Make an Appointment or Help Spread the Word!
We want to be able to help as many people as possible in our target communities. To do this, we need to have as many appointments as possible on our event days. If you or someone you know lives in New Haven or Greater Providence including the following communities: Central Falls, Cranston, Pawtucket, Providence or Warwick, please help us spread the word by doing the following:
- Make an appointment: Visit soundthelarm.org/Connecticut or soundthealarm.org/rhodeisland by calling 877-287-3327 and choosing option 1
- Share our information on social media: Follow @CTRedCross on Twitter and Facebook and @RIRedCross on Twitter and Facebook and share our posts about Sound the Alarm with your network. The more people who share, the more people will know about this lifesaving, FREE program!
- Share information in your community: Live, work or play in one of our target communities? Help us spread the word by sharing our information with the organizations you have a connection to in these areas. Please contact [email protected] to receive additional information and collateral.
Make a Donation!
Sound the Alarm. Save a Life. is made possible, in part, through the generous support of companies like Lifesaving Partner Kidde and Resiliency Partner Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation, but you can help, too! Please consider joining our CrowdRise to help us save lives by installing FREE smoke alarms. To join our CrowdRise Team click here.
Thank you for helping us sound the alarm in New Haven and Greater Providence area. Now, let's save some lives!
Sincerely,
Tom Vaccarelli and Jay Salvador
Sound the Alarm Co-Chairs
American Red Cross Connecticut and Rhode Island Region
