Fire officials are using Daylight Savings to send a potentially life-saving reminder.
West Kelowna Fire Rescue is urging everyone to not only change their clocks but to change the batteries in their smoke and carbon dioxide detectors.
Older carbon monoxide detectors need their batteries changed while newer models are equipped with a rechargeable battery.
As for smoke detectors, the ones with hard-wired alarms should still be checked over.
Asst. Fire Chief Darren Lee with the West Kelowna Fire Rescue says residents should check their alarms to make sure cobwebs and dust are not clogging up the machines.
The department points out that two-thirds of fire deaths occur in homes where there are no smoke alarms or no working alarms.
A carbon monoxide detector is as equally important because the gas is colourless and odourless and people may not know they are being poisoned.
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