LED Candle Donation Set to Assist with Fire Prevention
12 pack Rechargeable, LED Candles
Millennium Visual Systems has donated over 4000 battery-operated, LED candles to a local Chapter of American Red Cross that responds to disasters in the Greater Somerset County area of New Jersey. These flameless and smokeless candles provide the look of a flickering candle without the danger of an open flame.
Amy Sutton, the Chief Executive Officer of this Chapter of the Red Cross, said, “Your contribution helps us move closer to realizing our vision of a resilient community, one that can survive and recover quickly from any kind of disaster. Now we can encourage residents to use the LED candles instead of traditional candles to prevent house fires”. She continued, “Millennium’s donation will be shared with Red Cross Chapters throughout the state of NJ.”
The statistics are startling. According to the US Fire Administration, in 2008 over 20,000 people were injured or killed as a result of fire and direct property loss due to fires was estimated at $15.5 billion. In the United States, someone dies from a home fire roughly every 134 minutes. Many of these deaths could have been prevented with attention paid to open flames or use of an alternative source, such as the LED candle.
