(WKBN) – Now is the perfect time to make sure your smoke and carbon monoxide alarms are working properly.
The National Fire Protection Association says the risk of dying in a house fire is reduced by roughly 60% when there are working smoke alarms in the home.
Approximately three out of five fire deaths happen in homes with either no smoke alarms or ones that don’t work.
Nine-volt batteries are used in a lot of older fire alarms, and those need to be changed twice a year.
“Now if you have a smoke alarm that takes a nine-volt battery, those have to be replaced and we recommend that you replace those twice a year, when you change your clocks change your batteries,” said Anita Metheny, fire prevention bureau chief with the division of Ohio fire marshals. “We want to make sure you get a fresh battery in there because nine volts draw a little bit differently than lithium ion batteries in the sealed system so we should not keep them in there just as long as they work.”
She also says you should replace your fire alarms every ten years.
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