{"id":19137,"date":"2013-11-01T09:15:25","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T13:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=19137"},"modified":"2013-10-31T22:17:45","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T02:17:45","slug":"county-reminds-residents-to-change-clocks-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=19137","title":{"rendered":"County reminds residents to change clocks, batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">End of daylight saving time provides chance to check detectors<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Image12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-19138\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" alt=\"Image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Image12.jpg\" width=\"253\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Image12.jpg 253w, https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Image12-120x100.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/><\/a>Daylight saving time ends Sunday, Nov. 3, and county residents are reminded when turning clocks back an hour, change and test the batteries in smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis one simple step can help save lives,\u201d said Chester County Chief Fire Marshal Harrison \u201cDigger\u201d Holt in a county news release. \u201cEach year communities nationwide witness tragic fatal home fires. The most commonly cited cause of non-working smoke alarms is worn or missing batteries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This marks the 26th year that the International Association of Fire Chiefs, in association with Energizer, have sponsored the \u201cChange Your Clock, Change Your Battery\u201d program, the release said. The peak time for home fire fatalities is between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. when most families are sleeping. Children and senior citizens are most at risk, and a working smoke alarm can give them the extra seconds they need to get out safely.<\/p>\n<p>Families are encouraged to use the extra hour \u201cgained\u201d from &#8220;falling back&#8221; at the end of daylight saving time to review their home fire safety plans, including practicing an escape plan. For more information on \u201cChange Your Clock, Change Your Battery\u201d visit www.chesco.org\/des.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>End of daylight saving time provides chance to check detectors Daylight saving time ends Sunday, Nov. 3, and county residents are reminded when turning clocks back an hour, change and test the batteries in smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors. \u201cThis one simple step can help save lives,\u201d said Chester County Chief Fire Marshal Harrison [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,403],"tags":[4392,4393,29,4390,4391,4394],"class_list":["post-19137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-health","tag-change-your-clock","tag-change-your-battery","tag-chester-county","tag-chester-county-chief-fire-marshal-harrison-digger-holt","tag-daylight-saving-time","tag-international-association-of-fire-chiefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}