ORANGE — The American Red Cross is partnering with the Orange Fire Department to install smoke alarms in area homes on Tuesday.
Teams consisting of a Red Cross volunteer and a firefighter will visit Orange homes to install smoke alarms as well as educate the homeowners on fire safety and personal preparedness, as part of the Red Cross’s national Home Fire Campaign. Homeowners must sign up to participate in the program.
The campaign will kick off at the Orange Fire Department headquarters on Water Street at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Orange residents wishing to participate must own their own home, the home must have been built prior to 1975 and current alarms must be at least 10 years old or non-existent.
To register, contact the Orange Fire Department at 978-544-3145.
The goal of the campaign in Orange and across the country is to reduce deaths and injuries from home fires by as much as 25 percent over the next four years.
“Seven times a day someone in this country dies in a home fire, and we have witnessed that tragedy right here in our community,” said Mary Nathan, disaster program manager for the American Red Cross of Western Massachusetts, in a release. “Smoke alarms save lives.”