When the Red Cross team arrived at the Goodro home in Jerome to install free smoke alarms several years ago, the family’s three young children were asleep. The team agreed to come back later.

“The Goodro family was one of the last installations we did that day,” remembers Rusty Devereaux, disaster program manager at the Red Cross at the time.

Just a few months later, as the family prepared for a wedding, the new smoke alarms suddenly went off.

Ashley Goodro quickly discovered the cause.

“I went into my bedroom and it was filled with smoke,” she explained.

Thanks to their recent training, the family evacuated immediately. By the time the firefighters arrived, their home was engulfed in flames.

“My whole feeling was shock and disbelief,” Ashley said.

The family lost their home and all their belongings, but they all survived, uninjured.

Rusty doesn’t like to think what would have happened had they not installed smoke alarms in the Goodro home.

"Had it not been for our lifesaving campaign, this family would not be here today,” he said.