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When you change the time, change the batteries

When you change the time, change the batteries:Firefighters ask residents to change batteries in their smoke and carbon monoxide detectors.
York, Pennsylvania – with daylight saving time began early Sunday morning – when the clocks are set forward one hour – firefighters are encouraging residents to change batteries in their smoke and carbon monoxide detectors.

Time for change: the old saying “Spring forward, step back” is used, so at 2 o’clock Sunday night, the clock must be set one hour forward.

New smoke detectors: A few firefighters in York County, including the City Fire and Rescue Service and York, United Fire and Rescue, to provide free smoke detectors, they have established.

Wildfires fuel demand: City Fire / Rescue Services Assistant Chief Pat Rose, who is responsible for fire prevention bureau of the city, said demand for smoke detectors, it seems to work in spurts, especially after heavy fighting in the city.

“You get a bad fire, and suddenly we get a lot of calls,” he said. “They will hear the chief say, if they smoke detector, they might have been saved.”

Rose said that he thought that the fire in recent Perry County – where seven children died – can motivate people to call the fire department for smoke detectors, but this did not happen here, “he said.

New time, new battery: Rose said that his department is trying to spread the word about the need to replace batteries in smoke detectors twice a year, during the summer.

“We tell them that the best time to do it,” he said. “Changing the time seems to work, people remember that.”

House Calls: On Thursday, city firefighters installed smoke detectors in the two houses. In the North Franklin Street, the homeowner Cynthia Calder, 48, said she was relieved that the smoke detectors were installed in three floors of his house.

“I feel more safe and secure, better than I did when some of them are missing,” she said.

Calder said that she and her husband Michael recently bought a house where the couple and their two adult children and son in law live. Calder added that her daughter expects her first child soon. The family also has several cats.

She commended the efforts of firefighters and charity.

“I probably would not have been able to afford them if they were not free,” she said.
· City residents can call the New York Fire Bureau at 854-3921 from 8 am to 4:30 pm, Monday through Friday.

• In April, York, United Fire and Rescue will resume its program of visiting every house in Spring Garden, Springettsbury “and Manchester townships to provide working smoke, according to the department’s website. Any places residents with immediate need for smoke may contact the office of Chief Robert McCoy at 718-2383.

• To find out if a program in your area, contact your local fire department or municipality.