Seasonal changes have many furnaces already running. These changes can also alert animal health pros to check the functionality of smoke alarms and CO2 sensors. If you haven’t changed batteries or tested your alarms, now is the time to do so.
Combine the alarm checks with resetting your clocks. Daylight Savings time ends Sunday, November 5, 2017, 2:00:00 am. Clocks are turned backward 1 hour.
Source: BottomLine Inc., October 31, 2017.
More than 20% of residential fire deaths occur in homes where there were smoke alarms but those alarms were not working properly, either because of expired batteries or nonfunctional alarms.