Saturday, April 01, 2006

Time to check the smoke detector

Quick PSA: Daylight savings time for Americans reverts at 2 a.m. Sunday, which becomes 3 a.m. Sunday. This is also an excellent time to check and/or change your smoke-detector batteries. If you ever want to make a grown professional cry, ask your neighborhood fire marshal about the people hurt or killed because of a dead battery. He'll have a story. Every one of the fire marshals has a story. Not every homeowner has a good battery.

You can also go a different route: "They" sell 10-year lithium smoke detector batteries for about $12. That's $1.20 per year, or 0.3 cents a day. Heck, it could be about $3 per life.

1 Comments:

Blogger Unknown said...

Being a firefighter I can vouch for the fact that smoke detectors will save your life. Nobody ever burns to death in a fire. Smoke inhalation kills you.

April 01, 2006 8:52 PM  

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