Fire & Life Safety Information
Smoke / Carbon Monoxide Detectors
Keep your smoke detectors operating at peak performance. Whether you have a system that is hard-wired into 
your home with a battery back-up, or the simple battery operated detector it is important to keep the system maintained for the safety of your family and loved ones.
JCFPD recommends that you change your batteries twice a year. A good way to remember this is, when you turn your clocks forward in the spring, and back in the fall, replaces those batteries. Dust and blow out the units with your vacuum cleaner and re-install the unit.
This is also a good time to have home fire escape drills with the family. Do you know where you are going to meet as a family when you all get out of your home safely? Do you know what escape routes you all will use if the usual ones are blocked by fire and smoke? Plan ahead of time; on how to get out safely. Most importantly remember that once you get out…stay out!
With regard to Carbon monoxide detectors; call 911 even if you think you’re ok. There still may be levels in your home that need to be addressed. Long term symptoms of exposure will include headache, dizziness, nausea and possible vomiting. Remember that carbon monoxide is an odorless, tasteless, colorless gas that is a byproduct of incomplete combustion. Don’t take chances if your detector is activated. Call 911 and leave the environment until we can give you a more definitive idea as to what the levels are for the safety and wellbeing of you and your family.
