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By Kathleen Snyder
Special to the Rappahannock News
The Virginia Department of Fire Programs reminds all Virginians to change the batteries in their smoke detectors when they change their clocks from daylight savings time. Daylight Savings Time ends Oct. 31.
While smoke detectors are present in approximately 94 percent of American homes, it is estimated that 20 percent of these do not work because of discharged or missing batteries. Working smoke detectors alert people to fire and, hopefully, give them time to escape in a situation where minutes can mean the difference between life and death.
Research shows that households without working smoke alarms are two-and-a-half times more likely to experience a fire than those with working smoke alarms, and the chances of dying in a residential fire are
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