Spring Forward: Check Your Smoke Detector

Be prepared to lose an hour of sleep ‘springing forward’ Saturday night into Sunday morning. Daylight saving time comes to an end at 2am Sunday and this marks a perfect opportunity for you to think about safety. According to the Kahnawake Fire Brigade it is a great reminder to think about fire safety. Whishe Stacey is a Captain with the KFB:

“I think a lot of times people assume that it’s on there, it’s on the ceiling, it’s fine as long as it’s not making any noise, there’s absolutely nothing to do with it. It’s one of the things that I try to educate people on, it’s more than just a ceiling ornament. It’s important to make sure that they work. We had a fire over the winter where it was proven that it saved this family’s life. Simply because it went off and woke-up one of the individuals in the room in time for him to notice what was going on and do something about it and in all likelihood that’s what saved the house as well.”