Check Your Smoke Alarms, You’ll Be Surprised What You Might Find

Fire Prevention Week is Oct 4th through the 10th. One thing that is stressed by fire prevention officials, check your smoke alarms and replace batteries. My son Sam was helping me with a checklist of things we should do to be safer, and I was shocked what I found in our house

The checklist says we should have a smoke alarm on every level, and we did. We should have a carbon monoxide alarm, and we did. We should have one in every bedroom, and we did.

Here's where I was shocked. The checklist told us to check all the batteries, I didn't even check, I automatically changed all the batteries. This list said to get new smoke alarms every ten years. I wondered how could I check them? Right on the alarm itself is a date. I had smoke alarms on my main floor from 1998, 2001, and 2005. I usually check the smoke alarms every year, but because of this checklist I noticed how long they had been hanging there.

I urge you to check all the alarms in your house and change them out every ten years.