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Local Fire & EMS, Red Cross install over 180 smoke alarms in District 4 homes

Local Fire & EMS, Red Cross install over 180 smoke alarms in District 4 homes

Yahoo09-03-2025

COLUMBUS, Ga. () — Local fire and EMS paired up with the American Red Cross to help over 300 community members get smoke alarms in their homes Saturday morning.
'Sound the Alarm' is an annual event where crews go out to neighborhoods in need and install smoke alarms for free. This year, crews installed 183 alarms in 97 homes in District 4 of the city.
District 4 Councilor Toyia Tucker told WRBL this is an area in Columbus where many homes were built before smoke detectors were required. She said this has lead to multiple deaths in the past year.
'For some of these older homes, what if they had a smoke detector to actually alert them if an incident occurred and they're able to get out?' Tucker said, noting how heartbreaking the preventable deaths have been.
She said the free installation of the devices makes all the difference.
'You're not just getting a device to put on your counter and hope that it gets installed one day, it's actually being installed for free,' Tucker said. 'I just think that's a great asset for this community.'
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