By Gordon Williams This spring, the second annual Red Cross Sound-the-Alarm campaign will lead to 100,000 new smoke alarms being installed in 100 at-risk communities throughout all 50 states. Here in the Northwest Region, three events on April 27, May 4 and May 11 will focus installation efforts on neighborhoods in Everett, Seattle and Tacoma, … Continue reading Why we install smoke alarms and how you can help
WANTED: Volunteers in Grays Harbor County
Step up to help Grays Harbor County respond! By Mark Walker, Red Cross Volunteer Mike Michener, at the scene of the DuPont train derailment in 2017. Michener is one of just a very few volunteers based in Grays Harbor County, where he hopes to recruit reinforcements from the local community. The pulse of the American … Continue reading WANTED: Volunteers in Grays Harbor County
Pasco Fire Department Red-Hot
By MARK WALKER The Pasco Fire Department is blazing a trail across south-central Washington with life-saving smoke alarms provided by the American Red Cross. Crews respond to every call for service not only with firefighting and emergency medical supplies, but also carry smoke alarms available through the Red Cross Sound the Alarm Campaign. Whenever appropriate to … Continue reading Pasco Fire Department Red-Hot
Support for Red Cross comes Full Circle
By Mark Walker - Red Cross volunteer, Bainbridge Island, WA When fire struck the home of Wenatchee's Savannah Melton last fall, the Red Cross was immediately there to help. Melton was already more familiar with the organization than most. Her employer, Circle K, and its employees have been longtime friends and supporters of the American … Continue reading Support for Red Cross comes Full Circle
First Lady Sounds the Alarm
By Mark Walker, Red Cross volunteer, Bainbridge Island WA When the knock came at Sarah and Matt Parsons’ home, the couple opened the door to find Washington State First Lady Trudi Inslee on the porch, eager to do her part to Sound the Alarm. There was no emergency – the First Lady was among a … Continue reading First Lady Sounds the Alarm
Meet “Java” Horn: The Air Force General on the Red Cross Board
By Gordon Williams Edited by Nancy Waddell Air Force Brigadier General Jeremy (Java) Horn is obviously a man who likes to keep busy. His day job is commanding the two-thousand-and-some men and women in the three units that make up the Washington Air National Guard. But Horn also finds time to serve on the board … Continue reading Meet “Java” Horn: The Air Force General on the Red Cross Board
Knock-knock: It’s the Red Cross … no, really!
By: Julie Dosono When we moved into the Bow Lake Senior Mobile home park less than a year ago, the first thing I asked my husband to do was install a smoke detector, because I know how deadly a mobile home fire can be. Fast forward to Saturday, April 28, 2018, the day the Red … Continue reading Knock-knock: It’s the Red Cross … no, really!
How Installing Smoke Alarms became a Family Tradition
By Gordon Williams Edited by Colin Downey Every family has its traditions - the special things that members do that set the family apart and bind it together. A fast-growing tradition for the Muszkiewicz family of Mukilteo, WA is saving lives by installing smoke alarms in homes that lack them. That’s why father Rob Muszkiewicz … Continue reading How Installing Smoke Alarms became a Family Tradition
Why Snohomish County Sets the Pace in Smoke Alarms
By Gordon Williams Officially the Red Cross Sound the Alarm campaign starts April 28 with the ambitious goal of installing 100,000 smoke alarms nationwide in homes that lack them. At the Red Cross chapter serving Snohomish County, however, April 28 is likely to seem just another working day. Volunteers there make installing smoke alarms a … Continue reading Why Snohomish County Sets the Pace in Smoke Alarms
Smoke alarms installed by Red Cross comfort Everett family
By Dale Steinke Edited by Nancy Waddell Early one evening during a family gathering of more than a dozen people in Everett, the Hoffman family started a fire in a basement wood-burning stove to heat their home. “All of a sudden I had someone knocking at my door saying my chimney was on fire,” Linda … Continue reading Smoke alarms installed by Red Cross comfort Everett family
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