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Check your smoke detector batteries.

Posted: February 12th, 2007 :: Rancho Adobe Fire Protection District

Smoke Alarm Battery Check
Change Your Clock, Change Your Battery
Adopt a simple, potentially life saving habit: Change the batteries in your smoke alarms ONCE a year. Replace your batteries in the fall when you change your clocks back to Standard Time which is the LAST SUNDAY IN OCTOBER.
Without a working smoke alarm as an early warning device, fire can spread unnoticed through the household, blocking escape routes and filling rooms with deadly smoke. Consider the following:

Each day, an average of three children die in home fires - 1,100 children each year. About 3,600 children are injured in house fires each year. 90 percent of child fire deaths occur in homes without working smoke alarms.
Although smoke alarms are in 92 percent of American homes, nearly one-third don't work because of old or missing batteries.
A working smoke alarm reduces the risk of dying in a home fire by nearly half. Protect your family!

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