If someone doesn’t have smoke alarms, install them.There are several things families and individuals can do to increase their chances of surviving a fire: SIMPLE STEPS TO SAVE LIVES Even as the Red Cross and other groups install smoke alarms in some homes, they are calling on everyone to take two simple steps that can save lives: create and practice their home fire escape plan and check their smoke alarms. "We also will be teaching people how to be safe from home fire." We’re able to get to the communities we serve because we have good addresses."Installing smoke alarms cuts the risk of someone dying from a home fire in half, so we're joining with groups from across our community to install smoke alarms," said Laura Hann, Executive Director, American Red Cross serving the Texas South Plains. The address verification really does make an impact. "I’ve never experienced any issues with the tools and they seem to be getting better all the time. "Everyone I’ve dealt with at Smarty has been super supportive and helpful," said Janecek. “Being able to reliably understand where the fires are actually occurring and where we’re delivering our services is huge for us." The American Red Cross has been using Smarty tools for about 4-5 years. "The Smarty tool has been fundamental in helping us clean the data and build our models,” said Jake Janecek, Red Cross Project Manager. In a recent study, the difference in fire rates, fatalities, and injuries between program participants and non-participants was significant. Through this post-fire response investigative processes, the Red Cross has been able to document 1,189 lives saved as of November 2021! Given the quality of data collected by the Red Cross and its partners, they are one of the few organizations that has been able to document community risk reduction (and lives saved) at this scale.īecause they have clean address data management, they can also compare actual fire incident data against addresses of those who participated in their program versus those who didn’t participate.
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