| Daylight Savings Time officially begins at 2:00 AM on Sunday March 8th, so please remember to set your clocks forward one hour.
The Cutchogue Fire Department would also like to remind you to change the batteries in your smoke and carbon monoxide detectors and remember to test them monthly.
A study done by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) between 2000-2004 showed that 65% of reported home fire deaths resulted from fires in homes with either no smoke alarms or non working smoke alarms.
Unfortunately, these devices are such a silent common fixture in our homes that we tend to take them for granted. If we don't hear them, we feel safe that our homes are protected and they'll immediately go off when danger is present. But that's only true if they have working batteries, or haven't malfunctioned.
An estimated 890 lives a year can be saved if every home has a working smoke detector, so please test your alarms monthly and change their batteries regularly. And if your smoke detector is more than 10 years old, it is now recommended that the entire unit be replaced.
So this weekend when you change your clocks, make sure you change your batteries and test your smoke and carbon monoxide detectors.
For more safety tips about smoke alarms please check out these Fact Sheets:
http://www.nfpa.org/assets/files//PDF/Public%20Education/NFPASmokeAlarmFactSheet.pdf
http://www.nfpa.org/assets/files//PDF/Research/SmokeAlarmsSafetyTips.pdf |
