No one should die for the lack of a $5 smoke detector! Operation Safe Home is an effort to reduce fire deaths in residences by organizing volunteers with private businesses to inspect homes for working smoke detectors (especially in substandard houses). We organize volunteer organizations (mostly fire companies) to go door to door on a designated day to test smoke detectors (national studies have shown that about a third of all homes have no working smoke detector - a leading cause of residential fire deaths). When volunteers find none they install one free. If they find detectors with dead or missing batteries