Volunteer Driver: Serve as a driver and transport volunteer teams to installation sites.

Volunteer Documenter: Document resident information and the services provided.

Volunteer Safety Educator: Deliver fire prevention information in high-risk neighborhoods and assist residents in completing home fire escape plans.

Volunteer Smoke Alarm Installer: Install smoke alarms and replace batteries as needed in homes and apartments.

Volunteer Canvasser: Canvas neighborhoods to obtain requests for the installation of free smoke alarms.

If you are new to volunteering with the Red Cross, visit and type in your zip code to find the event closest to you. Getting involved is easy: If you are an existing volunteer, visit Volunteer Connection and look for home fire campaign or sound the alarm opportunities in your chapter. In the Greater New York Region, Joe Spaccarelli, Program Director, and his Home Fire Preparedness Team including Jane Hwang and Ailid Ramos, are organizing volunteer recruitment for high risk neighborhoods in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Mount Vernon, Hempstead and Brentwood. Working smoke alarms in a home are known to cut the risk of death by half and having an escape plan further improves the odds of survival. In addition to alarm installation, Red Cross volunteers will join with local fire departments and other partners to replace batteries in existing alarms, and provide families with fire prevention and safety education.

This fall, the American Red Cross will initiate the most ambitious national Home Fire Campaign ever held! Called 'Sound the Alarm', the event will be held from September 23 to Octowhen the Red Cross will install, free of charge, more than 100,000 smoke alarms – including our 1 millionth alarm – in high-risk neighborhoods throughout the country.

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