The Office of Fire prevention encourages everyone to change your battery in your smoke alarm.
"Change your clock, change your smoke alarm battery" is an annual fire safety campaign promoting the importance of working smoke alarms. Smoke alarms provide a vital early warning signal in the event of a fire.
People don't realize that when they are asleep they can't smell smoke. That's why smoke alarms are essential to ensure people sleeping in a house wake up and evacuate if a fire breaks out.
A good time to remember to check your smoke alarm and change the batteries is when you change your clocks twice a year as Daylight Savings Time begins and ends.
Prepare and practice an escape plan! Crawl low under smoke. Plan where to meet outside. Once you're out, stay out! Remember, smoke alarms save lives.