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The Central & Southern Ohio Region of the American Red Cross is seeking volunteers for its 2024
Sound the Alarm campaign taking place from April 13 to May 4.
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.
There are two types of volunteer opportunities available:
1. Volunteers are being sought to go into designated neighborhoods and leave behind informational door
hangers, alerting residents that the Red Cross will soon be in the area to install free smoke alarms.
2. Volunteers are needed to install FREE smoke alarms in area homes.
Volunteers who sign up to participate would be working with other Red Cross volunteers and members of local fire departments. Anyone interested in volunteering should visit our Regional Sound The Alarm Hub to find information on the events we have scheduled throughout the region.
This work is made possible thanks to generous financial donations from our regional sponsors:
AES Ohio Foundation
American Electric Power Foundation
Greater Cincinnati Foundation
Columbia Gas/NiSource
Ingram-White Castle Foundation
NetJets
George J. Igel Company
Duke Energy
Turner Construction
Advanced Drainage Systems
Big Lots Foundation
Altafiber
Stifel
Fifth Third Bank
Encova Insurance
Cassano’s Pizza King
Middletown Community Foundation
Hamilton Community Foundation
OhioHealth
The Huntington National Bank
Todd Miller Law, LLC
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.
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About the American Red Cross: The American Red Cross shelters, feeds and provides emotional support to victims of disasters; supplies about 40 percent of the nation’s blood; teaches skills that save lives; provides international humanitarian aid; and supports military members and their families. The Red Cross is a not-for-profit organization that depends on volunteers and the generosity of the American public to perform its mission. For more information, please visit redcross.org/CentralAndSouthernOH
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