Mayor Mike Purzycki today joined Fire Chief Michael Donohue and Theresa Young, Executive Director of the American Red Cross Delmarva Chapter , to announce that Wilmington will participate this week in the Red Cross Sound the Alarm initiative by hosting a two-day, home fire safety and smoke alarm installation campaign in some City neighborhoods. The campaign will take place this week onand. Each day, volunteers who want to help install the devices will be trained, and then go into the field to install the alarms immediately thereafter.The Wilmington Fire Department (WFD) will work alongside about 100 Red Cross and other local community volunteers to install FREE smoke alarms and educate families about fire prevention and safety. As many as 2,000 smoke alarms are expected to be installed in the Canby Park, Union Park Gardens and Bayard Square sections of the city. These areas were selected by the WFD for the City’s first such Red Cross partnership program.“Home fires are, regrettably, an all-too-frequent occurrence, both nationally and across our city,” said Mayor Purzycki, “and tragically, most fire victims do not have working smoke alarms. We are very happy to partner with the Red Cross in an effort to make City households and communities safer and save lives in the process.”“Smoke alarms save lives,” said Chief Donohue, “and they are a vital part of our community risk-reduction program. The Sound the Alarm Campaign will make our city a safer place.”Wilmington is one of more than 100 communities participating nationwide in this Red Cross effort to reduce deaths and injuries caused by home fires. The smoke alarms installed in Wilmington will count toward a national goal of 100,000 for this year alone. Sound the Alarm events across the country are part of the Home Fire Campaign, which the Red Cross launched in 2014. So far, it has reached more than 1.7 million people and saved more than 552 lives around the country., click here to fill out a Free Smoke Alarm & Education Request Form, or call 302.492.6098. Applications will be accepted up until the day before each scheduled installation., visit this link (for 4/25) or this one (for 4/27) to register, or call 302.492.6098. Walk-in volunteers are also welcome both days.The meeting locations for volunteer teams are: