If you cannot join the event, you can make a difference by donating to the Red Cross at to help people prepare for, respond to, and recover from home fires. Because of generous donations, all services are free and available. This work is made possible thanks to generous financial donations from corporate partners: Motorola Solutions Foundation Bank of America Peoples Gas ComEd. Of those lives saved, 45 were in Illinois. This “Sound the Alarm” event is a critical part of the National Red Cross Home Fire Campaign, which has helped save at least 1583 lives, since launching in October 2014. “Through the “Sound the Alarm” campaign, we’re working to reduce the number of fatalities by increasing homes that have working smoke alarms.” “Fires are the Nation’s most frequent disaster many of us don’t realize we have just two minutes to escape a home fire,” said Jeff Klarman, Board Chair for the American Red Cross of Northwest Illinois. Training will be provided before volunteer teams, with members of Morrison Fire Department and the Red Cross, visit area homes. People can register now at to install free smoke alarms and share fire safety information with residents during a local “Sound the Alarm” event in Morrison on Saturday, March 25, 2023, from 9:00 a.m. MORRISON VOLUNTEERS ARE NEEDED TO INSTALL FREE SMOKE ALARMS Through home visits, they’ve installed more than 2.5 million free smoke alarms and made more than 1 million households safer across the country.During the 20-minute home visits, Morrison Fire Fighters and Red Cross volunteers will also share information on the causes of home fires how to prevent them what to do if a fire starts how to create an escape plan. Sound the Alarm is a critical part of the Red Cross campaign. That’s why the American Red Cross launched its Home Fire Campaign in 2014.
The American Red Cross states that every day, seven people die in home fires, most often in homes without working smoke alarms. It is such a good feeling that I can leave a home and know that they are a little safer than when I arrived.”
In a press release, Heberlein said, “I have had the privilege of installing approximately 1,200 smoke alarms for the Red Cross in close to 400 homes here in the Quincy area during the last eight years. T Heberlein, who recently joined the staff of Golden Bridges, has worked with the program in the past and will reunite with personnel at the Adams County Red Cross to provide a needed service. QUINCY - Golden Bridges has begun a partnership with the Adams County Red Cross to provide the labor to install in-home smoke detectors in the Adams County area.
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