The beeping sound from a smoke alarm could save someone’s life. Everyone knows this fact. We’ve all seen the stories of how smoke detectors have save lives from fire. But, we’ve always hear the flip side of the coin and those deaths associated with fires where the battery had lost it’s charge and the early warning of a smoke detector didn’t work correctly.
Your probably asking yourselves, didn’t we get that “change your battery in the smoke detector’ reminder this for daylight saving time this past March? Yeah that’s normal 'Change Your Clock, Change Your Battery' that we do when we turn our clocks ahead in the Spring and we turn our clocks back in the Fall. Call me a dollar short but I’m one that always like doing a reminder in between those times and if you haven’t yet…change that battery…what are you waiting for?
Fire prevention is a year round outlook that it don’t hurt to get a little extra reminding. Everyone should remind families & friends to take the life saving step, by replacing the batteries in all smoke alarms. Have you at least been testing your smoke detector at least monthly? Hmmmm…note to self, “test smoke detectors in the house.” I will and you all should too as well as remind your neighbors. A smoke detector is one of the cheapest and most effective ways homeowners can provide year round fire protection for themselves and their families.
Every year lives are lost when the smoke detector becomes non-functioning. It takes but a moment to test or replace a battery in a smoke detector, and they do save lives.
Follow these simple tips concerning smoke detectors…
- Test smoke alarms once a month
- Replace batteries in all smoke alarms twice a year
- Don’t “borrow” or remove batteries from smoke alarms even temporarily
- Regularly vacuum or dust smoke alarms to keep them working properly
- Replace smoke alarms every 10 years
- Don’t paint over smoke alarms
- Practice family fire drills so everyone knows what to do if the smoke alarm goes off
Ok now, be fire safe and check those smoke detectors. Go on now, it’ll only take a minute.
Your probably asking yourselves, didn’t we get that “change your battery in the smoke detector’ reminder this for daylight saving time this past March? Yeah that’s normal 'Change Your Clock, Change Your Battery' that we do when we turn our clocks ahead in the Spring and we turn our clocks back in the Fall. Call me a dollar short but I’m one that always like doing a reminder in between those times and if you haven’t yet…change that battery…what are you waiting for?
Fire prevention is a year round outlook that it don’t hurt to get a little extra reminding. Everyone should remind families & friends to take the life saving step, by replacing the batteries in all smoke alarms. Have you at least been testing your smoke detector at least monthly? Hmmmm…note to self, “test smoke detectors in the house.” I will and you all should too as well as remind your neighbors. A smoke detector is one of the cheapest and most effective ways homeowners can provide year round fire protection for themselves and their families.
Every year lives are lost when the smoke detector becomes non-functioning. It takes but a moment to test or replace a battery in a smoke detector, and they do save lives.
Follow these simple tips concerning smoke detectors…
- Test smoke alarms once a month
- Replace batteries in all smoke alarms twice a year
- Don’t “borrow” or remove batteries from smoke alarms even temporarily
- Regularly vacuum or dust smoke alarms to keep them working properly
- Replace smoke alarms every 10 years
- Don’t paint over smoke alarms
- Practice family fire drills so everyone knows what to do if the smoke alarm goes off
Ok now, be fire safe and check those smoke detectors. Go on now, it’ll only take a minute.
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