Daylight Savings Time Means Smoke Detector Battery Time [View All]

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Daylight Savings Time Means Smoke Detector Battery Time

(Ottumwa) -- Daylight Saving Time begins tonight, so don't forget to move your clock forward 1 hour before you go to sleep.

And it's also the time of year that the Ottumwa Fire Department reminds residents to install new batteries in your smoke detectors. It's estimated that 94% of homes in the United States have smoke detectors, but up to a third of them don't work. The Fire Department encourages people to check their smoke detector at least once a month, and the National Fire Protection Agency recommends replacing the smoke alarms in your home if they are more than 10 years old.


Master Firefighter, Kerry McDonald says, "We find a lot of homes that have working smoke alarms that just, they either take out the batteries for some reason or they let them go, and they're just no good when they don't keep the batteries up, and smoke detectors do save lives."

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