Published Oct 27, 2001 8:15 am : Updated Jan 31, 2009 5:56 pm
Fire chiefs say Americans should replace smoke alarm batteries tonight at the same time they change their clocks for standard time. Most Americans “fall back´´ an hour to return to standard time at two a-m Sunday.
Each year, about six-thousand people die in home fires. More than 80 percent of those deaths are in home fires that don´t have a working smoke alarm. Usually it´s just a matter of a dead battery.
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