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Santa Clara Red Cross Chapter installs smoke alarms to reduce the risk of Home fires. Saving lives one home at a time.
Red Crossers and the Richmond Fire Department worked together to provide the local community with free smoke alarms and home fire safety information on Saturday, May 7 in Richmond, Calif. Together with the Richmond Fire Department, the team made 42 homes and 151 residents safer installing 149 free smoke alarms.
Photography by Brenda Dawson Dove
Volunteers, staff and Richmond Fire Department members gather during a Sound the Alarm event in Richmond, CA. May 7, 2022. The program provides communities with free smoke alarms, which volunteers install. This event was a partnership with the Richmond Fire Department.
Photography by Brenda Dawson Dove
Red Crossers and the Richmond Fire Department worked together to provide the local community with free smoke alarms and home fire safety information on Saturday, May 7 in Richmond, Calif. Together with the Richmond Fire Department, the team made 42 homes and 151 residents safer installing 149 free smoke alarms.
As part of the Red Cross Home Fire Preparedness Campaign, volunteers from the American Red Cross, the Paterson Office of Emergency Management, the Paterson Police Department and the Northeast Regional Council of Carpenters visit Paterson homes to install free smoke alarms in homes that need them and provide fire safety information on March 14, 2015. Pictured, left to right: Lewis Greensway of the Northeast Regional Council of Carpenters and Red Cross volunteer Alda VinBickas.
Photo taken March 14, 2015 in Paterson, NJ.
Erica M. Viviani/American Red Cross
Richmond Fire Department Chief Angel Montoya discusses safety during a Sound the Alarm event in Richmond, CA. May 7, 2022. The program provides communities with free smoke alarms, which volunteers install.
Photography by Brenda Dawson Dove
Red Crossers and the Richmond Fire Department worked together to provide the local community with free smoke alarms and home fire safety information on Saturday, May 7 in Richmond, Calif. Together with the Richmond Fire Department, the team made 42 homes and 151 residents safer installing 149 free smoke alarms.
Richmond Fire Department Fire Marshall Eric Govan emphasizes the importance of working together during a Sound the Alarm event in Richmond, CA. May 7, 2022. The program provides communities with free smoke alarms, which volunteers install.
Photography by Brenda Dawson Dove
Red Crossers and the Richmond Fire Department worked together to provide the local community with free smoke alarms and home fire safety information on Saturday, May 7 in Richmond, Calif. Together with the Richmond Fire Department, the team made 42 homes and 151 residents safer installing 149 free smoke alarms.
In San Jose, CA, Magic Sands Mobile Home Park, on Saturday, May 12, 2018, the Red Cross joined together with many volunteer community groups to install free smoke alarms and provide fire prevention and safety tips to residents of the Magic Sands Mobile Home Park. Partners included the San Jose Fire Department, Silicon Valley Bank, Camille McCormack, Chick-filA, Lee’s Sandwiches, and others.
Photography by Rick Johnson/American Red Cross
On November 30, 2013, the American Red Cross partnered with the Bagdad Fire Protection District in Bagdad, Ky., to conduct a Fire Prevention and Safety Campaign. From 1-4 p.m. firefighters and Red Cross workers distributed preparedness information and collected home fire safety data in northern Shelby County. Of the nearly 200 homes visited, the group was able to conduct more than 100 surveys. Communities visited include Bagdad, Christiansburg, Cropper, Elmburg and Stapleton. The Bagdad Fire Protection District will use the data collected to work on installing smoke detectors in homes that do not have one. 65 percent of home fire deaths occur in residences with no working smoke alarms. The American Red Cross encourages families to install smoke alarms on every level of their residence and outside of each sleeping area. For more information on fire safety and prevention for yourself and your family, visit www.redcross.org/prepare/disaster/home-fire.
Volunteers go door-to-door in the 4th and 5th Wards of East Orange, offering free smoke alarm installation in homes that need them and providing fire safety information.
Photo taken January 10, 2015 in East Orange
Erica M. Viviani/American Red Cross
Our Daily Challenge 13-19 February : Push or Pushing
This thing is incredibly irritating. Every evening it pips at me about every 15 minutes and I take it down and blow the dust/insect/whatever out of the hole and all is well ....till next evening.
The poster contest is a longstanding annual event used by the SFMO to promote fire safety awareness throughout Tennessee schools. This year’s contest theme corresponded with the National Fire Protection Association’s Fire Prevention Week campaign: “Don’t Wait – Check the Date! Replace Smoke Alarms Every 10 Years.”
We have mains powered, battery backed, interlinked smoke alarms. Sensors are located in kitchen (heat sensor only), hallway, living room and landing. The system works well. It’s loud enough to alert all occupants whatever they are doing - sleeping, headphones, etc. This one was getting confused due to dust getting inside the detection chamber. A good clean and it was back to standing on guard. It can not be under estimated what an essential piece of equipment the domestic smoke alarm is.
The Richmond Fire Department and Red Cross teamed up for a Sound the Alarm event in Richmond, CA. May 7, 2022. The program provides communities with free smoke alarms, which volunteers install.
Photography by Brenda Dawson Dove
Red Crossers and the Richmond Fire Department worked together to provide the local community with free smoke alarms and home fire safety information on Saturday, May 7 in Richmond, Calif. Together with the Richmond Fire Department, the team made 42 homes and 151 residents safer installing 149 free smoke alarms.
Volunteers go door-to-door in the 4th and 5th Wards of East Orange, offering free smoke alarm installation in homes that need them and providing fire safety information.
Photo taken January 10, 2015 in East Orange
Erica M. Viviani/American Red Cross
American Red Cross and Americorps California volunteers and staff teamed up to install smoke detectors in homes on Northern California's Hoopa Reservation as part of the organization's Sound the Alarm campaign to save lives. April 14, 2018.
Photography by Gabrielle Saveri/American Red Cross.
No I don't "think" it is what you are thinking...I was so good at finally getting the wood burning in the fireplace that I eventually had to take the batteries out of the smoke detector...after the second time of jumping out of the shower to fan away the smoke and open the windows (yes in my birthday suit) figures my room would be right next to the hotel restaurant (I think I was the evening entertainment) I had just had enough
As part of the Martin Luther King Day of Service, volunteers from the American Red Cross North Jersey Region, Perth Amboy Fire Department and the Puerto Rican Association for Human Development (PRAHD) teamed up to go door-to-door on Monday, January 19 in Perth Amboy neighborhoods distributing fire safety information and offering free smoke alarm installation in homes that need them. The event was the second in a series of fire safety canvassing events being held in Perth Amboy through the Red Cross Home Fire Preparedness Campaign.
Photo taken January 19, 2015 in Perth Amboy, NJ.
Diane Concannon/American Red Cross
LONDON. UK. 14/08/2013. A firefighter re-apply's a cylinder of air to his breathing apparatus so it is in full working order following it being used in the fire. 4 Fire Engines and over 20 Firefighters attend a fire at the Ascot Hyde Park Hotel, Craven Road, Paddington after it broke out on the first floor. © Lee Massey/Masspix. All rights asserted and reserved. No part of this photo to be stored, reproduced, manipulated or transmitted by any means without permission. Photo credit: Lee Massey/Masspix
Volunteers go door-to-door in the 4th and 5th Wards of East Orange, offering free smoke alarm installation in homes that need them and providing fire safety information.
Photo taken January 10, 2015 in East Orange
Erica M. Viviani/American Red Cross
In Milpitas, CA on Saturday April 28, 2018, the Red Cross kicked off its Sound the Alarm event, a series of home fire safety and smoke alarm installation events across the country. Red Cross volunteers, along with the Milpitas fire department and other partners canvassed at-risk neighborhoods in mobile home parks, installing free smoke alarms, replacing batteries in existing alarms, and providing fire prevention and safety education. 82 volunteers made 94 homes safer by installing 283 smoke alarms and educating 220 residents.
Photography by: Mark Butler/American Red Cross
Red Cross volunteers took their saturday morning to help install smoke alarms and educate on fire safety for residents of a local trailer park. American Red Cross Photographer-Ziji Zhou
Commercial & residential. Intruder, burglar, fire, smoke, CCTV & security alarms. Installation and alarm monitoring services.
The poster contest is a longstanding annual event used by the SFMO to promote fire safety awareness throughout Tennessee schools. This year’s contest theme corresponded with the National Fire Protection Association’s Fire Prevention Week campaign: “Don’t Wait – Check the Date! Replace Smoke Alarms Every 10 Years.”
07.28.18 Central Coast: Smoke Alarm Install – Hollister
Central Coast Red Cross volunteers brought the Sound the Alarm campaign to at-risk neighborhoods in Hollister. Together with the Hollister Fire Department and other community partners, Red Cross volunteers canvass at-risk neighborhood, install free smoke alarms, replace batteries in existing alarms and provide fire prevention and safety education.
Photography by Virginia Becker/American Red Cross
In Rohnert Park, CA on Saturday May 12, 2018, the Red Cross joined together with many community groups to Sound the Alarm, to save a life. They provided alarms to 35 homes, where they installed a total of 80 alarms and providing fire prevention and safety education.
Photography by Samar M. Salma/ American Red Cross
65 volunteers made 79 homes safer by installing 271 smoke alarms and educating 304 residents in Chualar and King City, California during Red Cross Sound the Alarm, Save a life Campaign.
Students and staff from Seaside High School helped with the effort. As did members of the Monterey County Regional Fire District and the Chualar Fire Station.
Photography by Jim Hobbs/American Red Cross
American Red Cross, Partners, & Volunteers join forces to install free Smoke Alarms in Sausalito's Floating Homes as part of the Sound the Alarm Events.
Photography by: Samar M. Salma/ American Red Cross
Other than a picture of a charred corpse, I struggle to imagine a more morbid warning for fire safety. In leaving comments, please feel free to speculate on ways to end the sentence. What was the battery? Caught dead? Dead? On fire?
On the other hand, I think it's a warning from vigilante firemen, stealing into homes and checking batteries, then going back to punish those whose 9-volt safety net have slipped.
There is a story to explain Buddy and Lucky's obvious distress in this image. To wit: Because it was so hot here last week we decided on the spur of the moment to drive to a lodge high in the Sierra's. Convict Lake is at seven or eight thousand feet, a picture perfect lake framed by dramatic granite cliffs. The cabins are a bit funky but mainly quite nice. At four in the morning, the smoke alarm went off and not just beeping: "Fire, Danger, Fire, Danger" a voice kept repeating after intervals of a high pitch screech. The dogs were panic stricken at this screeching and strange voice warning of fire and danger. Stumbling out of bed from a REM sleep, at first alarmed that maybe there was indeed a fire, then realizing it was a false alarm, I was unable to reach the alarm to quiet it. I dragged a chair from the other room and finally pushed something that turned it off. Back to sleep. Ten minutes later, having fallen back asleep, it went off again. Back on the chair and this time I tried to take the battery out but the alarm was hard wired to the electric current of the cabin. Finally managed to pull the socket from the back of the alarm and set the alarm on the kitchen table. Back to sleep. Ten minutes later, the alarm goes off again, powered by its internal back-up battery. I could not remove the internal battery because the device had been sealed, presumably to prevent people from tampering with it. I once again pushed the 'false alarm' button to quiet it and put it into the freezer compartment of the refigerator. Ten minutes later it went off again, and although muted, you could still hear the screech and voice announcing fire and danger. That was the end of the night.
First thing in the morning, with the smoke detector still doing its thing in the freezer, when I opened the door to the cabin the rattled dogs jumped into the car and refused to get back out. This is the portrait of the moment.....
video coming.....
The whole experience reminded me of a previous road trip confrontation with an alarm clock...
Volunteers go door-to-door in the 4th and 5th Wards of East Orange, offering free smoke alarm installation in homes that need them and providing fire safety information.
Photo taken January 10, 2015 in East Orange
Erica M. Viviani/American Red Cross
As part of the Red Cross Home Fire Preparedness Campaign, Lewis Greensway (second from left) and Fred Wood, Jr. (second from right) of the Northeast Regional Council of Carpenters, Officer Francisco Munoz and Red Cross volunteer Alda VinBickas visited Paterson homes to install free smoke alarms in homes that need them and provide fire safety information on March 14, 2015.
Photo taken March 14, 2015 in Paterson, NJ.
Erica M. Viviani/American Red Cross
City of Rohnert Park Fire Marshal Jim Thompson reviews the installation process for smoke alarms for American Red Cross’ Sound the Alarm event where volunteers, including himself, visit families living in mobile homes and install the alarms in all rooms where a person sleeps.
Photography by Marianna Moles/American Red Cross
LONDON. UK. 14/08/2013. A firefighter operates the turntable ladder. 4 Fire Engines and over 20 Firefighters attend a fire at the Ascot Hyde Park Hotel, Craven Road, Paddington after it broke out on the first floor. © Lee Massey/Masspix. All rights asserted and reserved. No part of this photo to be stored, reproduced, manipulated or transmitted by any means without permission. Photo credit: Lee Massey/Masspix
American Red Cross, Partners, & Volunteers join forces to install free Smoke Alarms in San Rafael as part of the Sound the Alarm Events.
82 volunteers made 94 homes safer by installing 283 smoke alarms and educating 220 residents.
Photography by Samar M. Salma/ American Red Cross
LONDON. UK. 14/08/2013. 4 Fire Engines and over 20 Firefighters attend a fire at the Ascot Hyde Park Hotel, Craven Road, Paddington after it broke out on the first floor. © Lee Massey/Masspix. All rights asserted and reserved. No part of this photo to be stored, reproduced, manipulated or transmitted by any means without permission. Photo credit: Lee Massey/Masspix
As part of the American Red Cross Home Fire Campaign, volunteers with the American Red Cross, Trenton Fire and Emergency Services, PSE&G, Church & Dwight and Signature Information Solutions canvassed neighborhoods in Trenton offering free smoke alarm installations in homes that need them and educating families about fire safety on Tuesday, October 25.
Photo taken Tuesday, October 25, 2016 in Trenton, New Jersey
Erica M. Viviani/American Red Cross
Volunteers go door-to-door in the 4th and 5th Wards of East Orange, offering free smoke alarm installation in homes that need them and providing fire safety information.
Photo taken January 10, 2015 in East Orange
Erica M. Viviani/American Red Cross
I woke up to the thing saying "the wayne county fire department will be conducting a test..." Then it makes a noise that would have you think a nuclear blast is on the way. If thats not enough then the strobe light show starts. This is all very annoying at 3:30am! The tile is pulled back cause i stuffed a towel up there to block the thing.
Eight different fire departments (all members of the Scott County Fire Association) joined the SFMO on June 24, 2017 to install 424 smoke alarms in 182 homes in Scott County.
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Several events were held during Camp Zama’s Fire Prevention Week from Oct. 4 to 9 to raise the awareness of fire safety throughout the community on Camp Zama and Sagamihara Family Housing Area. Employees from Camp Zama’s Directorate of Emergency Services visited John O. Arnn Elementary School, Oct. 8 to educate the students on fire safety. (U.S. Army phots by Noriko Kudo)
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A mains powered, battery backed, inter-linked smoke alarm system is a important home safety feature. Every home should have one.
But when there is a fault at 03:00... 04:00 and then at 05:00 it can get tiresome. Silencing the alarm can be tricky until the alarm condition or fault is resolved. You can't pull the battery out as its mains fed, and vise versa!
03:00 - Jump from bed, is this a real alarm? Home survey reveals it is not. Dog want to come upstairs to see if everyone is OK.
04:00 - Ditto 03:00
05:00 - Jump from bed. Check again to see if its a real alarm. No. Get vacuum cleaner out and clean each sensor. Hope the neighbours don't mind.
05:30 - Goes off again. Give up. Remove and unplug all alarms to inspect.
Looking at the back of them, the name plate shows these have been installed for 11 years now. The recommended maximum being 10 years.
On the hunt for replacements right now...