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New Canaan Fire Officials: Swap Out Smoke Detector Batteries This Weekend
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Fire officials are urging New Canaan residents to make changing their smoke detectors’ batteries part of the same ritual as setting clocks ahead one hour this weekend for Daylight Savings Time. The New Canaan Fire Department, Local 3224, and Rotary Club of New Canaan are supporting the national “Change Your Clocks—Change Your Batteries” campaign. Together with private residents, they’re giving away batteries from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, March 8 at Fire Headquarters on Main Street (limit three batteries per household). Daylight Savings Time takes hold at 2 a.m. Sunday, March 9. Fire Marshal Fred Baker told NewCanaanite.com that one major advantage to changing out smoke detector batteries before they get low is to avoid the annoying chirp that indicates a low battery.