As from this weekend Winter is officially on the way! The clocks will go back on Saturday night (Well Sunday morning really) and our evenings will get progressively darker. This weekend too, The Fire Kills Campaign are asking us all to take a few moments when we change our clocks to keep ourselves and our families safe by testing our smoke alarms at the same time.
Did you know that if your smoke alarm is not working, statistically you are more than four times more likely to die in a fire. Yet only 50% of people who own a smoke alarm say that they test it to see if it is working on a regular basis. Testing the smoke alarm is kind of thought about as something to do ‘later’! So, as we are already all going to be changing our clocks this weekend, it’s a perfect opportunity for us to turn ‘later’ into ‘now’.
On a lighter note, for those who can never remember if the clocks go back or forward, simply say to yourself ‘Fall Back, Spring Forward‘ and you’ll remember it easily then.
