If a sound accompanies your smoke detector's flashing red light, however, it may mean that immediate action needs to be taken. The reasons for this can vary depending on your brand of smoke detector.

OMAHA — Daylight saving time ends on Nov. 3, and the American Red Cross encourages everyone to test their smoke alarms as they turn their clocks back to make sure the devices are working.

Since 2014, the Red Cross's Sound the Alarm program has rallied hundreds of volunteers to assess and replace smoke detectors. The effort aims to reduce home fire deaths in Wisconsin.

The Red Cross can install smoke alarms, or check existing ones are working properly, for free with an appointment. “We either do them with the fire department or we've got volunteers who are ...

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Saturday marked the Red Cross' Sound The Alarm initiative, a chance to get out into the city's Southwest Side and install smoke detectors for neighbors totally free-of-charge.

Ken Edelblute, a volunteer with the American Red Cross, said they installed about 30 smoke alarms following a fire that ripped through three mobile homes near 31 st Avenue and Buckeye. No one was ...

The Red Cross wants to install 1,000 smoke detectors for free by the end of the month in residences in 26 ... Red Cross offering free smoke detector installations in WNY. 0 Comments Share this.

The American Red Cross and Baltimore City Fire Department are working to make sure everyone has proper smoke detectors.City fire officials said, with the holidays right around the corner, it's ...

Apr 26, 2024 — Lucy Grindon Smoke detectors save lives. The Red Cross will install them at your home for free. When fires happen in people's homes, smoke detectors can save lives.

Michael Gendek had a sense of relief Saturday as volunteers updated the smoke detectors in his family’s second-story Jeannette apartment. Since the family moved into the Harrison Avenue rental ...