(WKBN) - Now is the perfect time to make sure your smoke and carbon monoxide alarms are working properly. The National Fire Protection Association says the risk of dying in a house fire is reduced by roughly 60% when there are working smoke alarms in the home. Approximately three out of five fire deaths happen in homes with either no smoke alarms or ones that don't work. Nine-volt batteries are used in a lot of older fire alarms, and those need to be changed twice a year.

"Now if you have a smoke alarm that takes a nine-volt battery, those have to be replaced and we recommend that you replace those twice a year, when you change your clocks change your batteries," said Anita Metheny, fire prevention bureau chief with the division of Ohio fire marshals. "We want to make sure you get a fresh

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