Our Smoke alarm installation program began in 2006 to assist in preventing home fire deaths or burn injuries to children and adults. We support and coordinate several events each year where volunteers and fire fighters install free dual sensor smoke alarms in high risk households throughout communities in Arizona.
This program exists to be sure that anyone living in older homes or in high risk areas have at least one working smoke alarm in their home.
Over the years we have partnered with more than 20 different Fire Departments, installed over 12,000 dual sensor alarms, and coordinated or participated in over 70 walks.
We partner with Fire Departments and civic or corporate organizations. At risk neighborhoods are identified by Fire Department partners. With our partners and volunteers we will install new Dual Sensor smoke alarms and check existing alarms for free. For the Smoke Alarm Installation walks, training is done the morning of each event, prior to the start of the walk. Typically the training starts at 8:00 AM and the installation walk ends around 12:00 PM. There are 2 or 3 people on each team,1 person generally handles the smoke alarm installations or checking of batteries in existing smoke alarms. One of the other team members handles the paperwork which includes handing out burn prevention brochures and a release form the homeowner needs to sign/date if we do an install.