HURON — For the fourth year in a row, the American Red Cross in Huron is partnering with the Huron Fire Department to install smoke alarms in homes in a designated area.
On Saturday May 12, smoke alarm installation teams will canvass the southwest area of town, between Third and Ninth Streets, and from Dakota to Lincoln Avenues, beginning at 9:30 a.m. Teams should have installation completed by 2:30 p.m.
Huron is one of the communities across the country participating in the Red Cross national campaign “Sound The Alarm. Save a Life.”
Over the next few days canvassers from Center for Independence, The Boy Scouts, fitness walkers organized by Rhonda Kludt, plus Red Cross volunteers, will place door hangers on the homes in the designated area to announce the program so homeowners will be alerted to the event. Over the course of only 16 days – from April 28 to May 13 – the goal for volunteers and partners across the nation is to install 100,000 free smoke alarms across the country.
The Huron Fire Department and the Red Cross have partnered since 2015. The north end of town was completed in the first two years and last year the Southeast side of town was completed, up to 9th Street.
ROGER LARSEN/PLAINSMAN file photo
Ray Sorensen of the Red Cross in Sioux Falls talks with volunteers before they head out to install free smoke detectors in Huron at last year’s event. Below, Huron firefighter Chad Crandall installs a smoke alarm Saturday as part of a Red Cross Home Fire Prevention Campaign.