Change Your Clock! Change Your Batteries!


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October 25, 2024

            

Sharon Firefighters remind residents to change batteries in smoke and carbon monoxide alarms.

 

It's that time of year again! Change Your Clock, Change Your Batteries™!

 

This year, Sharon Firefighters have partnered with Energizer® batteries to remind people of the simple, life-saving habit of changing the batteries in smoke alarms and carbon monoxide alarms when setting the clocks back on November 3rd for daylight saving time.

 

Three minutes. That’s how much time families have on average to get out of their homes after hearing a smoke alarm in the event of a fire. However, those life-saving minutes only occur when those alarms are fully powered and operational with fresh batteries. When you change your clocks back on Sunday, November 3, it is also a good time to install fresh batteries in your smoke and carbon monoxide alarms.
 
Energizer® and Sharon Firefighters are partnering for the 
36th year to share this life-saving message through the Nationally recognized “Change Your Clock Change Your Batteries” Program. 

 
Smoke alarms remain among the most important battery-powered home devices. A recent study showed that 71 percent of smoke alarms that failed to operate had missing, disconnected, or dead batteries. “
This statistic is of serious concern to us as firefighters, and could be improved upon if residents adopt the simple habit of Change Your Clock, Change Your Batteries every Fall near the daylight-saving time change. Working smoke alarms cut the risk of dying in a home fire nearly in half. Changing batteries in smoke alarms and carbon monoxide alarms will only take a few minutes and could save your life,” said Deputy Fire Chief Nicholas Samson.
 

The Sharon Fire Department is offering to check smoke and carbon monoxide alarms and provide assistance in changing the batteries in smoke and carbon monoxide alarms for any Sharon resident who is unable to do it themselves. Contact the Sharon Fire Department Division of Fire Prevention at (724) 418-4797 and leave a message for this service.

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