American Red Cross helps Ocoee residents with Sound the Alarm program for fire safety

OCOEE, Fla. — The American Red Cross of Central Florida helped residents with their home fire prevention campaign.

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The Red Cross and the Ocoee Fire Department installed free smoke alarms and educated people about fire safety Saturday morning.

Volunteers and firefighters went door-to-door for homes without smoke alarms and informed people about how to escape a fire.

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American Red Cross helps Ocoee residents with Sound the Alarm program The Red Cross and the Ocoee Fire Department installed free smoke alarms and educated people about fire safety. (American Red Cross of Central Florida /American Red Cross of Central Florida)

March is also American Red Cross Month, and Hilton Grand Vacations raised $50,000 to support the initiative and other emergency efforts.

The Home Fire Campaign began in 2014. According to the Red Cross, the program has installed more than 2.5 million smoke alarms nationwide.

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