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Volunteers help area citizens make homes safe

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – About 150 volunteers spent their Saturday helping are citizens make their homes safe.

The CICOA Aging and In-home Solutions annual Safe at Home event focused on homes in the Mapleton Fall Creek neighborhood.

The volunteers installed grab bars, hand rails, smoke detectors and motion detection lighting.

About 45 of the volunteers were from United Home Healthcare – an in-home healthcare service provider.

The volunteers also helped clean up yards.

Saturday was the seventh year of the event.

For more on Safe at Home, click on the video.