Like folks in most of the United States, in Alaska we end Daylight Savings Time tonight, setting our clocks back an hour. I’ll be getting an extra hour of sleep!!
Now is also a good time to changed the batteries in your home smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors (even those that are hard-wired). The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission recommends that batteries be changed twice a year. May as well do it at the beginning and end of Daylight Savings Time.
A working smoke alarm will double your chances of surviving a home fire by giving you the critical time needed to escape. More than 90 percent of all homes in the U.S. have smoke alarms, but as many as one-third of them don’t work because of old or missing batteries. And two-thirds of fire deaths occur in homes where there are no smoke alarms or no working smoke alarms.
For more tips on preventing and surviving a home-fire, see my March post, Spring Forward & Change Your Batteries.
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