Bend, Ore. – For the third year in a row, the local American Red Cross and the City of Bend Fire Department are partnering to save lives by installing smoke alarms in homes that need them in Bend.
On Saturday, April 8, starting at 8 a.m., more than a dozen Red Cross volunteers and firefighters will go door-to-door in the Pines Mobile Home Park in Bend to install free smoke alarms and deliver fire safety information.
The Red Cross installs free smoke alarms in homes that need them and has installed more than 11,000 smoke alarms in Oregon and Southwest Washington since 2014. Five lives have been saved in this area as a result of Red Cross installed smoke alarms.
“Prepared families are safe families,” said Cyndi Dahl, executive director for the Central and Eastern Oregon Chapter of the American Red Cross. “The Red Cross provides free resources to help facilitate this process and will visit your home free of charge to help you be ready for disasters big and small.”
“If there was only one thing we could do to increase home fire safety, it would be to have a smoke alarm installation campaign,” said Larry Medina, Oregon State Fire Marshal and Deputy Chief of Fire Prevention for the City of Bend Fire Department. “We wanted to partner with the Red Cross to make sure our community is protected with working smoke alarms and have the information necessary to maintain working smoke alarms in their home.”
In past years as part of the same campaign, the Red Cross and the City of Bend Fire Department have focused smoke alarm installation efforts in communities identified as having a higher incidence of home fire-related injuries. Past events have resulted in about 100 smoke alarms being installed in a single day. The goal to install 300 alarms makes the April 8 event the largest in the campaign’s three-year history.
If you would like to participate in this event, call (541) 749-4197 to RSVP for the event.
WHAT: Red Cross Smoke Alarm Installation Event
WHERE: Bend Fire — South Station
61080 Country Club Dr., in Bend, OR
WHEN: Saturday, April 8, 2017, starting at 8 a.m.
