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Free Smoke Detector Batteries...
August 18,2011
The
Darke County Solid Waste
Management District along with Darke County Homeland Security and EMA
will team
up with our local Fire Departments to get the word out on a simple
life-saving
tip, “Change Your Clock, Change Your Batteries.” Replacing home smoke
detector
batteries is a small and easy step that can mean the difference between
life
and death.
In
preparation for daylight-saving
time on Sunday, November 6, the district and your local fire
departments want
you to know that when you change your clock, it’s also time to take an
extra
minute to change the batteries in your smoke detectors. Fresh batteries
are
critical in insuring smoke detectors work when fire breaks out.
Nonetheless,
changing those batteries is something people forget to do more often
than not.
On
Saturday, October 22, 2011 from
8:00-12 Noon, the district will underscore the importance of the
“Change Your
Clock, Change Your Batteries” message by hosting a 9-volt battery
exchange in
conjunction with the district’s household hazardous waste event.
Also
participating in the battery
exchange are the following entities with their event dates:
Sept
3-5 2011 — Liberty Twp Fire Dept
11:00
am to 4:00 p.m.
Oct
1, 2011 — Arcanum Fire Prevention
& Public Safety Day
Noon
to 4:00 pm
Oct 2 - Nov 10, 2011 — City of
Greenville Fire Dept.
M-Th
8:00 am to 4:30 pm & Fri 8 am
to 1 pm
Oct
2—8, 2011; Oct 27, 2011 & Oct
30, 2011— Ansonia Fire Dept
Times
TBA
Oct
3— Nov 11, 2011 — Darke Co Solid
Waste Dist.
M—F
8:30 am to 4:00 p.m.
Oct
3— Nov 11, 2011 — Darke Co
Homeland Security/EMA
M—F
8:30 am to 4:00 p.m.
Hollansburg
Fire Dept.
Times
and Dates—TBA
Union
City, OH Fire Dept.
Times
and Dates—TBA
Simply
bring your spent 9-volt
batteries to one of the events listed above, and we’ll exchange them
with new
batteries. There
will be a limit of 5
batteries exchanged per Darke County Address.
This event is FREE to all Darke County
Residents!
For
more information on this event and
other district sponsored events, visit our website at
www.co.darke.oh.us/solidwaste or call the office at 937-547-0827.
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