After a decade, it time to replace them. All of his eight alarms were made in 2001 and were well beyond their best by date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a good time to check the manufacture dates on your smoke detectors and fire alarms. If it was a decade ago, replace them. If it was less than 10 years ago, enter the 10 year mark on your electronic calendar as a reminder to replace them then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you Ross for sharing your story \u2013 and for saving us from waking to the frightening sound of shrieking alarms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A colleague and his wife learned some alarming news just before midnight Friday. The firefighters who visited their home said that smoke detectors and fire alarms have a \u201cbest by\u201d date. After a decade, it time to replace them. All of his eight alarms were made in 2001 and were well beyond their best by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[153,179,293],"class_list":{"0":"post-468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-general-information","8":"tag-fire-alarms","9":"tag-home-safety","10":"tag-smoke-detectors","11":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/dmatthewslaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/smoke-detector-300x211-1.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/dmatthewslaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/smoke-detector-300x211-1.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"D Matthews Law","author_link":"https:\/\/dmatthewslaw.com\/author\/dmamdm\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmatthewslaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmatthewslaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmatthewslaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmatthewslaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmatthewslaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dmatthewslaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10666,"href":"https:\/\/dmatthewslaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/10666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmatthewslaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmatthewslaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmatthewslaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmatthewslaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}