HomeAire Sister Companies Honored During Lung Cancer Awareness Month

Did you know that radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer?  Radon is estimated to cause many thousands of deaths each year. Radon occurs naturally in the ground and can seep into homes and buildings, negatively impacting your lungs and, ultimately, your life.  

The American Lung Association (ALA) and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts have recognized HomeAire’s sister companies RadonAway and AccuStar as “advocates of the effort to prevent radon-induced lung cancer through risk reduction.”   The companies received a “Fight for Air” award from the New England Chapter of the ALA, as well as official recognition from the Massachusetts State Senate, praising their “leadership in providing …equipment to protect the public from radon gas.”

“AccuStar Labs and RadonAway are proud to receive the Fight for Air award from the New England Chapter of the American Lung Association,” said Carolyn Allen, President of AccuStar labs. “We hope this recognition will help extend our call to prevent lung cancer into the medical community.  With the help of health care professionals, together we can spread the news that radon testing and mitigation save lives.”

In his acceptance speech, David Hill, VP of Sales and Marketing of Spruce Environmental Technologies, Inc., the parent company of AccuStar, RadonAway and HomeAire  said, “I’m humbled to be among tonight’s other honorees. Since I learned about our award, I’ve been thinking about what we might have in common with this very distinguished group of physicians, surgeons and researchers, and now I’ve realized what it is: We perform surgery on houses, fighting lung cancer by removing a carcinogen from people’s homes with our surgical tools – jackhammers, sawzalls and fans.”

Because radon is an odorless, colorless gas, the only way to test for it is with a home radon test kit.  If your home tests positive for radon, fear not!  Radon remediation and mitigation systems, equipped with radon fans are very effective at reducing or eliminating radon in the home.