09 Mar Change your clocks, Change your batteries.
MACOMB, IL — Daylight Saving Time starts at 2:00am on Sunday, March 10, 2019. Be sure to change the batteries in your smoke and carbon monoxide detectors when you change you clocks. Also, check the batteries in your weather radio.
The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) reports that between 2009 and 2013, three in five home fire deaths occurred in homes that either did not have smoke alarms or the alarms did not work properly. The batteries were either missing or disconnected in about half the homes that did have smoke alarms when the fire broke out.
A new law in Illinois requires a ten year smoke alarm be installed in all homes that do not have hardwired smoke detectors by the year 2022.