The FDNY and the FDNY Foundation are reminding New Yorkers to change the batteries in their smoke and carbon monoxide alarms when they change their clocks for the end of Daylight Saving Time on Nov. 1, 2015.
As a part of the outreach effort, members of the Foundation-funded FDNY Fire Safety Education Team are distributing 30,000 batteries, as well as electric candles and fire safety literature at more than a dozen locations throughout the five boroughs. The batteries were donated to the Foundation by Duracell.
“Two-thirds of all fatal fires in New York City occur in homes that do not have a working smoke alarm present,” said Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro. “Smoke alarms are life saving devices – and having a working smoke alarm dramatically increases your chance of survival from a fire.”
Events on Sat., Oct. 31 include:
"Two-thirds of all fatal fires in New York City occur in homes that do not have a working smoke alarm present. Smoke alarms are life saving devices – and having a working smoke alarm dramatically increases your chance of survival from a fire."
Daniel Nigro, Fire Commissioner