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The 'difference between life and death' – home maintenance experts reveal 3 smoke alarm tests you must do in October

According to our home maintenance experts, now, in October, is the perfect time to do so, particularly during fire prevention week, which ends tomorrow. Here are the three tasks they recommend getting ...
GBH

Check your smoke detectors: Fire officials urge Mass. residents to replace outdated alarms

October and December, they said, and that 60% of those fires break out overnight — when a blaring smoke alarm could save ...
Gloucester Daily Times

State fire officials urge residents to replace expired smoke alarms

STOW — State Fire Marshal Jon Davine and the Fire Chiefs Association of Massachusetts are teaming up this month to draw ...
CapeNews.net

State Fire Marshal, Chiefs Urge Residents To Replace Expired Smoke Alarms

State Fire Marshal Jon M. Davine and the Fire Chiefs Association of Massachusetts (FCAM) are raising awareness to a wave of smoke alarms that are nearing the end of their ...

Wave of smoke alarms set to expire a decade after code change

Many Massachusetts smoke alarms will need replacing in the coming months, fire officials warned Tuesday. The state Department ...