“The incident really underscored for us the value of our smoke-alarm installation program,” Ghandehari says. But if the neighbor hadn’t happen to see the smoke, the recently installed Red Cross smoke alarms - also sounding a warning - might have been the only thing separating the home’s two adults and six children from almost certain tragedy. In this case, the eight occupants of the home were alerted to the fire by a neighbor who, seeing smoke billowing from the attic of the Lewis Street house, had knocked loudly on the door. “We had installed two alarms in the very same home as part of our Red Cross Home Fire Campaign,” Ghandehari says. The two Red Cross Disaster Action Team (DAT) members for South Santa Clara County had been there before in fact, just seven months before as installers on a Red Cross smoke-alarm installation team. Summoned to the scene of a house fire in Gilroy this past November, American Red Cross volunteers Mo Ghandehari and Gordon Sakai thought the residence - badly damaged - seemed eerily familiar to each of them. Mo Ghandehari, left, and Gordon Sakai visited the same Gilroy home twice: once to install two smoke alarms a second time when the same alarms were activated by a fire in the attic.
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