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March 6, 2008

It’s (Daylight Saving) Time to Change the Batteries in Your Smoke Alarms

As most of the country moves ahead one hour for Daylight Saving Time on Sunday, March 9, it’s a bi-annual reminder for Arizonans to also make a change – by replacing the batteries in their home smoke alarms! Your family’s chances of surviving a home fire DOUBLE when there are working smoke alarms in the home.

The Phoenix Fire Department offers these tips:
  • Replace the batteries twice a year and replace your smoke alarms before they are ten years old.

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  • Missing or dead batteries are the main reasons smoke alarms do not sound in response to a fire.

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  • A smoke alarm has a limited life – like any household appliance that works 24-hours a day.

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  • After ten years, your smoke alarm has worked over 87,000 hours!

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  • If you don’t know exactly how old your smoke alarms are, you should replace them just to be safe.

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  • In 2005, the latest year records are available, in the United States one home structure fire was reported every 83 seconds!

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  • Seventy-four percent of reported home fire deaths resulted from fires in homes with no smoke alarms or no working smoke alarms.

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  • Most fatal fires kill one or two people and the more deadly fires occur at night, between the hours of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. The majority of victims of home fires die in their sleep because they are unable to smell the smoke. Smoke alarms are the best remedy.
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