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Change Your Clock, Change Your Battery Smoke Alarm #Giveaway

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Energizer

It’s that time again, time to “fall back” and change the time on our clocks. Energizer wants you to know the importance of checking your battery in your smoke and carbon monoxide alarm.


Throughout October, Energizer is inviting parents across the country to join the Energizer Bunny® Brigade on Facebook (www.facebook.com/energizerbunny) for a chance to win free smoke alarms and batteries for their home or a grand prize of a home fire safety makeover. It’s a fun way to get people thinking about an important topic – home fire safety – and sharing positivity within their communities.

 

“As parents we’ve got a lot on our minds– jobs, busy schedules, filling hungry tummies so it’s easy to let home fire safety slip from our radars,” says Melissa Gerstein, host of NBC’s Moms And The City. “You never think a fire will strike your home, but it certainly could and it’s important to take as many proactive steps as we can to protect our families. From one parent to another, we need to remind each other to be sure our smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors are in working order and that our kids know what to do in case of a fire. Using that extra hour when we change our clocks is the perfect time to do it.”

 

Daylight saving time ends on Sunday, Nov. 6. As families change their clocks, it’s a good time also for families to review their home fire safety plans, starting with changing the batteries in their smoke and carbon monoxide detectors.  Energizer and the International Association of Fire Chiefs are asking families across the country to join them in this year’s Change Your Clock Change Your Battery® campaign.  The message is simple, and the habit can be lifesaving. Thirty-eight percent of fatal fire injuries occur in homes without working smoke alarms, while 24 percent occur in homes in which at least one smoke alarm is present but fails to operate.*

 

Firefighters work tirelessly to help reduce the risk factors by educating their residents on the importance of having a working smoke alarm. In many communities, fire departments are able to distribute free batteries to citizens in need as a result of the Change Your Clock Change Your Battery® program. Over the past 23 years, Energizer has donated more than four million batteries to local fire departments. The Change Your Clock Change Your Battery® program is just one of the ways Energizer brings to life the company commitment to making a positive impact in communities across the country. For more information, please visit nowthatspositivenergy.com.

 

“Each year, thousands of lives are forever changed due to the devastating effects of a home fire,” said Chief Al H. Gillespie, president and chairman of the board of the International Association of Fire Chiefs. “A working smoke alarm is an important defense for surviving a home fire. That’s why public information and education efforts being undertaken by fire departments with the support of Energizer is a vital component to keeping communities across the nation safe and sound.”

Families are encouraged to  use the extra hour “gained” to remind their friends, family and neighbors of the life-saving habit of changing and testing smoke alarm batteries, and to help those who may need assistance.

Thanks to Energizer I’m giving away two smoke detectors equipped with Energizer batteries.

Win It:

Two of my lucky readers will win a smoke detector equipped with Energizer batteries.

 

Mandatory Entry

Tell me when the last time was that you checked your batteries.

Extra Entries

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  • Join the Energizer Bunny Brigade
  • Tweet about this contest once every 24 hrs. Please include @frostedfingers. You can click the tweet button above.

Disclosure: The smoke detectors and batteries are provided by Energizer. I did not receive anything for posting this giveaway. All opinions are my own. Giveaway is open to US readers only. It will close at 11:59 Central on 11/11/11. No purchase is necessary to win. Winner will be selected by the And The Winner Is plugin. Winner will be posted here on Frosted Fingers and notified by email. Winner will have 48 hours to claim the prize.

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  1. This spring was the last time my batteries were changed or checked:o

    mclemore102 at gmail dot com

  6. it was in spring when we set the clock an hour forward

    Thank you for hosting this giveaway

    Louis
    pumuckler {at} gmail {dot} com

  8. following you on twitter @left_the_stars

    pumuckler {at} gmail {dot} com

  12. I last changed our smoke detector batteries the last time the time changed and am due to do it again in a couple of weeks. Whenever the time changes, I change the smoke detector batteries, whether they need it or not, and do a complete system check on our alarm system.

    Thanks for the great giveaway opportunity. ~Pauline (dod@rogers.com)

  20. Batteries were changed TODAY thanks to your reminder about making the change at the beginning and conclusion of Daylight Savings Time.

  31. Just last week because my daughter moved into an apartment and we wanted to make sure hers were working They weren’t so replaced her batteries