Change Your Costumes, Clocks... and Batteries This Weekend

You probably won't forget to turn your clocks back an hour this weekend, marking the end of Daylight Savings Time. Gaining an extra hour of sleep will be nice, especially if you're enjoying trick-or-treating or other Halloween festivities Saturday evening.

But it's also important to take this opportunity to change the batteries in the smoke and carbon monoxide detectors inside your apartment. This is the advice that the International Association of Fire Chiefs ("IAFC") and Energizer have been giving for 22 years as part of their "Change Your Clock, Change Your Battery" campaign. Taking this easy, low-cost step could save lives.

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