The South Central Ohio chapter of the American Red Cross is seeking volunteers for its 2023 Sound the Alarm campaign taking place in April in Ross, Adams, and Vinton counties.
Volunteers are needed to work with current Red Cross volunteers and staff, members of local fire departments, and other partners to install smoke alarms in local homes. Sound the Alarm is part of the larger Red Cross Home Fire Campaign which aims to reduce home fire deaths and injuries through providing disaster preparedness information, home fire safety instruction, and the installation of FREE smoke alarms. Since the program’s inception in 2014, more than 36,000 families in Central & Southern Ohio been made safer through the Red Cross Home Fire Campaign. Of the approximately 62,000 disasters the Red Cross responds to across the country every year, more than 90 percent are home fires.
Sound the Alarm volunteer opportunities in Ross, Adams, and Vinton counties:
Saturday, April 15, 2023
Smoke alarm installation event with Hamden Fire Dept.
Meeting Location: Hamden Fire Dept 100 Wilkesville Ave. Hamden, OH
Saturday, April 22, 2023
Smoke alarm installation event with Peebles Volunteer Fire Dept.
Meeting Location: Peebles Fire Dept 178 Elm St. Peebles, OH
Saturday, April 29, 2023
Smoke alarm installation event with Concord Twp. Fire Dept.
Meeting Location: Concord Fire Dept. 27 Springfield St. Frankfort, OH
Anyone interested in volunteering should go to redcross.org/chillicothe and click on the Sound the Alarm information box on the home page.
Residents in need of free state-of-the-art smoke alarms can call the Red Cross hotline to make an installation appointment 844-207-4509.