Chief William Miller and the Hopkinton Fire Department would like to remind residents to check their smoke and carbon monoxide alarms when setting their clocks back for daylight saving time this weekend.
Daylight saving time ends on Sunday, Nov. 6, at 2 a.m., and clocks will move back one hour at that time.
Residents are encouraged to check their smoke and carbon monoxide alarms to ensure that they are working properly and to change the devices’ batteries, if needed.
Smoke alarms that are properly installed and maintained are vital in reducing deaths and injuries due to fire by giving you time to escape.
According to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), from 2014-2018 three out of five home fire deaths resulted from fires in homes with no smoke alarms (41%) or no working smoke alarms (16%). In fires in which the smoke alarms were present but did not operate, two of every five (41%) of the smoke alarms had missing or disconnected batteries.
