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Spring Ahead - Change Your Clocks, Change Your Batteries - Smoke Detectors Save Lives
By BHFD STAFF
March 10, 2018
Tomorrow Sunday, March 11th, begins Daylight Saving Time at 2:00am. As you spring forward and set your clocks ahead one hour, be sure to change the batteries in your smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors or test them if you have a new detector with a battery that is good for 10 years.
SMOKE DETECTORS SAVE LIVES
Three out of five home fire deaths result from fires in properties without working smoke alarms.
More than one-third (38 percent) of home fire deaths result from fires in which no smoke alarms are present.
The risk of dying in a home fire is cut in half in homes with working smoke alarms. (Courtesy of the NFPA)
