As Daylight Saving Time comes to an end tonight, and we turn the clocks back HVFC would like to remind everyone to check and change the batteries in your smoke and carbon monoxide alarms.

Smoke alarms save lives. Smoke alarms that are properly installed and maintained play a vital role in reducing fire deaths and injuries. Fire spreads fast—working smoke alarms give you early warning so you can get outside quickly.

According to the National Fire Protection Association:

* Roughly three out of five fire deaths happen in homes with either no smoke alarms or no working smoke alarms.

* More than one-third (38 percent) of home fire deaths result from fires in which no smoke alarms are present.

* The risk of dying in a home fire is cut in half in homes with working smoke alarms.