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Practice your two-minute home fire escape plan.Follow your alarm’s manufacturer instructions. Components such as sensors can become less sensitive over time.

Replace smoke alarms that are 10 years or older.

Install smoke alarms on every level of your home, including inside and outside bedrooms and sleeping areas.

Visit /fire for more information, including an escape plan to create and practice with your family, or download the free Red Cross Emergency app by searching “American Red Cross” in app stores. When turning your clocks back this weekend, test your smoke alarms and replace the batteries if needed.

Over the past month, local Red Cross volunteers responded to help 205 people in Los Angeles affected by 33 home fires, which account for most of the more than 60,000 disasters that the Red Cross responds to annually across the country. When you turn your clocks back this weekend, also test your smoke alarms to help prevent a tragedy in your home.” “The sooner an alarm alerts you to a fire, the sooner you can get out. “Home fires claim more lives in a typical year than all natural disasters combined, but working smoke alarms can cut the risk of dying in a home fire by half,” said Guillermo Sanchez, Red Cross LA Regional Preparedness Manager. As daylight saving time ends on November 6, the American Red Cross encourages everyone to test their smoke alarms to help stay safe from home fires as they turn their clocks back.