The Cincinnati Fire Department will once again be participating in the Change Your Clock Change Your Battery Program. On Saturday 10/31/09 and Sunday 11/01/09 fire companies will be providing smoke alarm batteries to the public. The public will also be encouraged to stop by any fire station and obtain batteries for their smoke alarms.

Once fire companies have distributed their allotment of batteries, they are to encourage individuals to obtain batteries by visiting another fire station or through another means. The public is not to call Fire Prevention for batteries.

Here are a few points that will stress the importance of working smoke alarms:

• Since the introduction of smoke alarms fire deaths have decreased by 50 %, proving that working smoke alarms save lives.
• Somewhere in the nation, a home fire death occurs approximately every three hours. In the U.S., roughly 80 percent of fire deaths result from fires in homes without working smoke alarms.
• Smoke alarms most often fail because of missing, dead or disconnected batteries. Smoke alarm maintenance is a simple, effective way to reduce home fire deaths.
• In the City of Cincinnati smoke alarms are required on each level, and near sleeping quarters of all residential occupancies.

The Change Your Clock Change Your Battery Program is sponsored by Energizer® Max® batteries and the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC), with more than 6,200 fire departments participating nationwide.

Fire Station Location link: http://www.cincyfire.com/CFD_Firehouses.cfm