Program offers South Charleston residents free fire alarms

  • 2017-08-10
West Virginia's state fire marshal and the American Red Cross are getting serious about tackling fire-related injury and death.

The office of Ken Tyree, the state's fire marshal, is sponsoring an initiative called ‘Get Alarmed West Virginia’. As part of the program, agencies across the state will install more than 3,500 fire alarms, including in South Charleston, Charleston and the surrounding area.

Anyone living in the state is eligible to receive the free devices, which will be installed in people's homes by volunteers beginning next month and continuing through the middle of October.

Agencies running statewide programs can use Mailing services to spread word of their initiatives far and wide. West Virginia's ‘Get Alarmed’ program will run at around the same time as the Red Cross' national ‘Sound the Alarm, Save a Life’ campaign. The Red Cross hopes to recruit enough volunteers to install 100,000 fire alarms in 100 cities from September 23 until October 15.

Volunteers can sign up for the West Virginia program here, or by calling 304-558-2191. The deadline to register as a volunteer in West Virginia is next Wednesday, August 16. People are invited to sign up to volunteer with the Red Cross by visiting the organization’s website. Cities participating in the Red Cross' program include Beckley and Charleston.

According to the Office of the State Fire Marshal, the Red Cross' alarms have helped save the lives of people in West Virginia at least a dozen times since its Home Fire Campaign began in 2014.
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