Sound the Alarm with @RedCrossOK #volunteer

This spring, join fellow Red Cross volunteers in more than 100 communities across the country as we launch Sound the Alarm, a series of home fire safety and smoke alarm installation events to help save lives.

Did you know that the American Red Cross responds to a disaster every 8 minutes, and the vast majority of these are home fires? Sadly, every day seven people die from home fires, most in homes that lack working smoke alarms, with children and the elderly disproportionately killed. That’s why the Red Cross launched the Home Fire Campaign in 2014. Since then, volunteers and partners have made over 300,000 households safer. Now we’re on the cusp of something big, and we need your help.

This year in the State of Oklahoma, 2,057 homes made safer by installing  5,232 alarms and together with volunteers across the country we have saved over 381 lives. This year, from April 28th – May 13th, we will install 100,000 smoke alarms in over 100 cities across the nation. We are counting on volunteers like you to help us achieve this major milestone! Here is how you can help: Volunteer to help Sound the Alarm. Save a Life Registration is open! Click here Sound the Alarm OKC - Red Cross Volunteer Registration to sign up for our May 5th OKC Sound the Alarm event and commit to joining 35,000 volunteers across the country to make homes safer by installing smoke alarms, replacing smoke alarm batteries and helping families create escape plans.

Support Sound the Alarm through Personal Fundraising You can amplify your impact through Personal Fundraising with your friends and family to help save lives! Join your chapter’s fundraising team and then ask your network to donate to your page and help save lives. Join your chapter’s fundraising team page here: www.crowdrise.com/stacentralsouthwestok

Spread the word! Invite your friends and family to volunteer with you or to join your fundraising efforts! Ask them to sign up at www.soundthealarm.org.

Thank you for all that you do to serve communities in Central & Southwest Oklahoma. Together, we can Sound the Alarm about fire safety and help save lives