Set clocks back and check alarms

Dear editor:

The East Central Baptist Association is reminding you to set your clocks back one hour Saturday. 

The ECBA would also like to stress the importance of changing the batteries in your smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors. The few moments taken to make this change could save lives.

The ECBA urges you to use the time change as a reminder to check your detectors and alarms to make sure that they are working and if need be, change the battery or the detector.

In the United States, almost two-thirds of home fire deaths result from fires in homes with inoperable or no smoke alarms present.

Here in Indiana, according to the U. S. Fire Administration, “76 civilian home fire fatalities were reported by U.S. news media Jan. 1 through Oct. 27, 2021.”

On average, families have less than three minutes from the time the first smoke alarm sounds to escape a fire. Making sure that your smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors work is a very inexpensive form of life insurance. 

The peak time for home fire fatalities is between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. when most families are asleep. Children and senior citizens are most at risk and a working smoke alarm can provide the extra lifesaving seconds they need to get out safely.

For more information please visit nfpa.org.

The ECBA not only cares about spiritual fire prevention but daily fire safety as well.

Pastor Bill Peters

Acting moderator for the East Central Baptist Association