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Return to Daylight Savings Time Means Check Your Smoke Detectors

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. Get our free mobile app 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.

South Dakota Fire Marshal urges residents to check fire alarms

South Dakota Fire Marshal urges residents to check fire alarms © Provided by Sioux Falls(Mitchell) KSFY File photo SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - When it comes to Daylight Saving Time this weekend, South Dakota safety officials say there is more to it than just changing the clocks. Daylight Saving Time starts at 2 a.m. local time Sunday morning. That means pushing clocks ahead one hour. But state Fire Marshal Paul Merriman says this is also a good time to change the batteries in smoke alarms. He says the alarms can save lives. Merriman said statistics from the National Fire Protection Association indicate:

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