Have Working Smoke Alarms

• Install smoke alarms in every bedroom, outside each sleeping area and on every level of the home, including the basement.
• Interconnect your home’s smoke alarms. This way, when one sounds, they all sound.
• Teach children the sound of the smoke alarm and to exit the home/building when it sounds.
• Place alarms on the ceiling four inches from the wall; alarms on the wall must be four to 12 inches below the ceiling.
• Smoke alarms should be tested monthly.
• Smoke alarm batteries should be changed at least once a year.
• All smoke alarms should be replaced every 10 years.
• Working smoke alarms cut your risk of dying in a residential fire by 50%.