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Red Cross brings fi re safety awareness to Middle Village
BY JULIA MORO
EDITORIAL@QNS.COM
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State Senator Joseph Addabbo teamed up with the
Red Cross to install a smoke detector in a Middle
Village home as New York faces a greater threat
of fi res during the colder winter season.
Since October 2014, the Red Cross Home Fire
Campaign has worked to educate families about
fi re safety, helping create escape plans and installing
free smoke alarms. The greater New York Red
Cross invited Addabbo to help raise awareness as
the temperatures drop.
“Fire safety is particularly important during
colder months as Red Cross sees a spoke in home
fi res when temperatures drop,” the Red Cross said
in a statement. “Locally in Greater New York Red
Cross volunteers and partners have installed more
than 168,000 smoke alarms and helped make more
than 61,000 households safer.”
Addabbo said that as it gets colder and especially
with Christmas trees in homes, it’s important to
bring awareness to families.
“When you have a great program like this — with
free installation of fi re detectors and carbon monoxide
detectors — I just want to bring awareness to the
program,” Addabbo said. “It’s to raise awareness not
only of the dangers of fi re and fi re prevention but
also about this program.”
According to the Red Cross, home fi res are responsible
for more fatalities in the U.S. in a typical year
than all other natural disasters combined, killing
an average of seven people every day. Most deaths
occur in homes lacking a functional smoke alarm;
State Senator Joseph Addabbo (c.) teamed up with the Red Cross to spread awareness about the
importance of smoke detectors in home as New York faces a greater threat of fi res during the
colder winter season. Photo courtesy of Addabbo’s offi ce
many are unprepared when it comes to fi re safety.
“Having a working smoke alarm doubles one’s
chances of surviving a home fi re,” said the Red Cross
statement. “Every day across greater New York, the
American Red Cross responds to fi ve to 25 disasters,
providing emergency lodging, food, water, blankets,
fi nancial assistance, emotional support, health assistance
and more.”
The American Red Cross has installed more than 2.1
million free smoke alarms and educated over 2.3 million
people on fi re safety since the Sound the Alarm
campaign started in 2014. According to the Red Cross,
this means over 1,000 lives have been saved.
Anyone who needs a free smoke alarm installation
can schedule one on the Red Cross website at
redcross.org.
Wishing everybody a healthy and
safe holiday season.
Merry Christmas,
Happy Kwanzaa and HappyNewYear.
Congresswoman
Grace Meng
Wishing everyone the best
Christmas Season possible, and for
a Healthy New Year.
Joseph P. Addabbo, Jr.
New York State Senator
District 15
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