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Darke County Solid Waste
Change Your Clock, Change Your Batteries
Instead of waiting for a smoke detector to jolt you out of bed in the
middle of the night with the loud chirping or beeping sound it makes
when the batteries begin to die, it makes sense to beat it to the punch
by replacing the battery twice a year on a regularly-scheduled basis,
during the time change. This is a good time to replace all of your
smoke detectors' batteries, because it serves as a twice-yearly
reminder, is on the weekends when we set our clocks forward for
daylight savings time and back to standard time. This year, the time
change is on November 1, 2020.
Smoke detectors may be either battery powered or wired directly into a
home’s electrical system. But nearly all smoke detectors, including
those that run on household current, do contain a battery. Detectors
that are hard-wired to the home's electrical system use this battery to
provide backup power in case a fire knocks out the house’s electrical
power.
Both battery-operated and household-current smoke detectors sound the
previously-mentioned beeping or chirping low-battery alarm.
This alarm is different than the deafening, blaring fire alarm that
occurs during a fire: it is a sporadic beep, not a constant blast.
If you hear the beeping or chirping low-battery alarm, do not ignore
it; change the battery immediately. Do not ever remove the battery
without replacing it with a new one--smoke detectors with
fully-functional batteries are critical to the safety of your family
and home. Sadly, news reports of tragic fires often point out that the
home had smoke detectors but those detectors had been disabled.
The Darke County Solid Waste District and our local Fire Departments
have teamed up to offer a battery exchange for 9-volt batteries. There
is a limit of 5 batteries per household. Batteries can be exchanged at
the above locations:
Visit our website at : www.co.darke.oh.us/solidwaste
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