Vols push to prevent new fire horrors

A DAY AFTER two Queens fires erupted in homes without working smoke alarms, causing critical injuries to a man and two small children, more than 100 volunteers fanned out in Brooklyn installing free smoke alarms and educating families about fire safety.

The “Sound the Alarm” event kicked off at Public School 398 in Brownsville Saturday morning, dispatching volunteers to a swath of Brooklyn communities prone to home fires.

Volunteers then spent the rest of the day knocking on doors, offering to install free smoke alarms for residents.

The event, sponsored by the Red Cross in conjunction with the FDNY, the Yankees and other groups, is part of an effort to install more than 100,000 smoke alarms across the country, organizers said.

Early Friday, firefighters responded to two massive home fires in Queens between midnight and 5 a.m. Smoke-eaters managed to save two small cousins from one home and a severely burned man from the other as they put out the blazes. All three remained hospitalized Saturday.

In each case, no working smoke alarms were present, officials said.