The clocks are falling back this weekend.
Residents will get an extra hour to enjoy their late night Halloween festivities, or an extra hour to sleep in on Sunday morning.
Milton’s Fire Chief Peter Gatto says it’s a great time to check your smoke alarms.
He adds that the alarm gives you a good chance to get out and away from a fire.
Chief Gatto says it’s important to remember that batteries do expire.
If the batteries in your fire alarms do expire, Gatto recommends getting 10-year lithium battery smoke alarms. He says that’ll make it so that you know for at least 10-years that your smoke alarm will be working.
It’s also a good time to check your Carbon Monoxide (CO) alarms. Next week is Carbon Monoxide Awareness Week, as the gas is known as the silent killer. It is invisible, tasteless, and odourless. CO is produced when fuels such as propane, gasoline, natural gas, heating oil or wood do not burn completely in fuel-burning appliances and devices such as furnaces, gas or wood fireplaces, hot water heaters, stoves, barbeques, portable fuel-burning heaters and generators and vehicles.
myFM News will have more on Carbon Monoxide safety next week!
