PSA: Check your smoke detectors! They can't save your life if they're not working...

This is a PSA post about smoke alarms. I know that the daylight savings time switch is coming up, and that’s when you typically check and test your smoke alarms, but here is your reminder to do it now! 

Test Your Alarm for Life!
Your smoke alarm has the power to save your life. Or does it? If you haven't tested your smoke alarm lately, it may not be working. And that's a risk you can't afford to take. Working smoke alarms give us early warning of a fire, providing extra time to escape safely. But they can't do their job if we haven't done ours - monthly testing to make sure they're working. Test all the smoke alarms in your home. For the life of the alarm and for the lives of your loved ones.

When was the last time you tested your smoke alarms?

Last month? Last year? Can't remember? If you're not sure your smoke alarms are working, then how can you be sure you'll be protected if a fire breaks out? Don't gamble with your life and assume your smoke alarms are working. Test each one, every month, so you'll know they'll be ready to protect you and your family if there's a fire. Test your alarm for life.

Do you have the time?

Can you afford to spend a few minutes each month to test the smoke alarms in your home? Can you afford not to? Going without the protection of a working smoke alarm is a risk too dangerous to take. In a fire, you'll need every second to get out safely, and the early warning from a smoke alarm can make the difference between surviving a fire and dying in one. Test your smoke alarms today. You can't afford not to.

Do you have enough smoke alarms?

Install smoke alarms inside each bedroom, outside each sleeping area and on every level of the home, including the basement. On levels without bedrooms, install alarms in the living room (or den or family room) or near the stairway to the upper level, or in both locations. This means that if you have a four-bedroom house, and all of the bedrooms are accessed from a second-floor hallway, you need to have a smoke detector in each bedroom and one in the hallway outside the bedrooms. One smoke detector must be present on every floor of the house, including basements and attics.

I actually have testing the smoke alarms on my printable cleaning checklists (which you can find HERE ) so I don’t forget to do it. 

How many smoke alarms do you have in your house?