American Red Cross door-to-door in Frayser installing smoke alarm [Video]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The American Red Cross wants to make sure families stay safe, so they are going door-to-door installing free smoke alarms.

The group is targeting an area within a five-mile radius of the Ed Rice Community Center Saturday, March 11, 2023, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

“We call it Sound the Alarm and it’s an initiative to install free smoke alarms, and provide home fire safety, education to families for free,” said Sarah Breazeal, Executive Director of the American Red Cross – Mid-South.

“When people lose everything that they have in a fire and they don’t have a smoke detector it breaks my heart,” said volunteer Tena Wheat-Crump.

The American Red Cross said Frayser is one community in which it frequently responds to help following house fires.

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