Return to Daylight Savings Time Means Check Your Smoke Detectors
As we return to Daylight Savings Time this weekend, in addition to nudging your clock ahead an hour before you go to bed on Saturday night, don t forget to change out the batteries in your home s smoke detectors too.
It s always been kind of an unwritten rule that those two activities go hand-in-hand twice each year during the time change weekends.
Smoke detectors can and do save lives. There s plenty of data to back that up.
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South Dakota Fire Marshal Paul Merriman shared a little of that information with Dakota News Now recently. Merriman said smoke alarms sounded in more than half (54%) of the home fires that were reported to U.S. fire departments from 2014 to 2018.