Spring Forward! Change Your Clocks and Change Your Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Detector Batteries

PUBLIC INFORMATION RELEASE:

March 5, 2024

MEDIA CONTACT:

Lieutenant Jim Roberts

850-391-6905

LTRoberts@mpvfd.org 

SPRING FORWARD! CHANGE YOUR CLOCKS AND

CHANGE YOUR SMOKE AND CARBON MONOXIDE DETECTOR BATTERIES

Mount Pleasant, FL - With daylight saving time beginning this Sunday at 2 a.m., the Mount Pleasant Volunteer Fire Department urges residents to change the batteries in their smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors when they set their clocks forward one hour.

More than 70 percent of fatal fires throughout the U.S could be prevented if working smoke detectors were in place. A good way to make sure working batteries are in smoke detectors is to change them each time daylight saving time goes into effect, so these life-saving devices are always operational.

Fire Chief Clay Fallis says, “The change to and from daylight savings time is a date and time twice a year that we all remember. As we go through our homes and change the clocks, we should also take this the time to replace the batteries in our smoke and carbon monoxide detectors. The chance of surviving a fire significantly increases when you have a working smoke alarm.” 

Chief Fallis also suggests in addition to replacing the batteries you should also prepare and practice a family fire escape plan.

For more fire safety tips visit the department’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/mpvfd or the department’s website at www.mpvfd.org.

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About the Mount Pleasant Volunteer Fire Department

The Mount Pleasant Volunteer Fire Department is one of eleven departments in Gadsden County, Florida.

Founded in 1968, the Mount Pleasant Volunteer Fire Department is a small rural all volunteer fire department that strives to provide the highest quality of fire and rescue services to the citizens and visitors of our community. Department personnel are made up of dedicated community volunteers that are on standby twenty-four hours a day and seven days a week to keep the residents and visitors of Mount Pleasant and Gadsden County safe.