Day light Savings is the perfect time to check your smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors. The change in clocks twice a year is a great time and reminder to check the batteries and be sure that your smoke and carbon monoxide detectors are working properly. Follow the manufacturer’s directions for cleaning dust and cobwebs from your detector.
When you are making your rounds to reset your clocks, take the time to replace the batteries in your smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors. Even houses with hard wired detector should be checked. All hard wired detectors have battery back-up features so those batteries should be replaced.
Smoke detectors should be placed in every bedroom and at least one detector on each living level of the house. In addition it’s important to put a detector in utility rooms, laundry rooms and rooms with the potential for fire.
- Almost two-thirds of reported home fire deaths in 2003-2006 resulted from fires in homes with no smoke alarms or no working smoke alarms.
- When smoke alarms fail to operate, it is usually because batteries are missing, disconnected or dead.
- A working smoke alarm significantly increases your chance of surviving a deadly home fire.
