You'll meet your installation team members (if you don't already know them) and receive supplies such as smoke alarms, a drill, educational materials, and a map of your route for the day. When everyone has arrived, there may be a short rally which gives us an opportunity to provide simple training and tips, as well as to celebrate you for generously volunteering your time! When you arrive at the event location, follow the signs to check in. Together, we will canvass neighborhoods, knock on doors, check smoke alarms in homes and replace if necessary, educate families about home fire safety, build evacuation plans with them and document our services. The Everett Fire Department, in cooperation with the American Red Cross of Snohomish County, will install smoke alarms, free of charge, in the homes of low income, seniors and those with disabilities.Your Sound the Alarm event will be a fun day of preparing families against home fires and making your community safer. We can also help install or troubleshoot your fire alarm. Residents of the City of Everett can get information about home safety assessments and smoke alarms by calling the Fire Marshal’s Office at 42 or email at have specialized alarms for people with hearing issues.

The smoke alarm should be replaced 10 years from that date (not the date of purchase). To ﬁnd out how old your smoke alarm is and its expiration date, simply look on the back of the alarm where the date of manufacture is marked. Smoke alarms lose their effectiveness over time and should be replaced at least every 10 years. It’s important to properly install and maintain your home smoke alarms. In fires in which the smoke alarms were present but did not operate, almost half (46%) of the smoke alarms had missing or disconnected batteries.Three of every five home fire deaths resulted from fires in homes with no smoke alarms (38%) or no working smoke alarms (21%).

According to the National Fire Protection Association: Smoke alarms provide an early warning of a fire, giving people additional escape time that can save lives. Most deadly fires happen at night, when people are asleep.

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