This is hard. Every day, the Red Cross says 7 people die in home fires and most of them are in homes that don’t have working smoke alarms. Volunteers in the Treasure Valley are going to change that, and there's still time to get involved and help save a life.
The Red Cross has launched the Home Fire Campaign to help make sure there are smoke alarms in every home in the Treasure Valley, and across the U.S. Volunteers are going to walk through at-risk neighborhoods in a few days and they'll work alongside fire departments and other local groups to install free smoke alarms, replace batteries in existing alarms, educate families about fire prevention. The kids might learn "stop, drop, and roll," in school, but when is the last time we had a refresher course as adults? This will help us put that family escape plan together that we're all supposed to have but rarely have time to sit down and hash out.