Have you ever waited for the clock to strike midnight on your birthday? Katie Marcinko has — to sign up to become a Red Cross volunteer. Katie applied to be an IndianaRedCross volunteer the moment she turned 13. Now, as she graduates high school, she has put in over 4,000 volunteer hours. Katie is following in her mother and grandmother’s footsteps. They are both Red Cross volunteers who introduced her to the mission on day one. “My mom tells a story about how she would bring me to her office since I was an infant," Katie said. Today, Katie and her mom make homes safer together. They installed free smoke alarms and shared fire safety education in every household in their community of Frankfort, Indiana, with our Home Fire Campaign. The significance of the Red Cross mission became clear to Katie after she helped a family with nine children. They did not realize that all of their smoke alarms had no batteries. "It was an amazing thing, Katie said. "I just knew that we touched that ...