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Most people don’t know that October is Fire Prevention Month and with candles and lanterns around you can never be too careful. If you’re going to use open flame candles or jack-o-lanterns make sure they are away from flammable material and never leave them burning unattended.

The good people at Kidde, yes as in the world’s leading manufacturer of fire safety products. The Mebane, N.C. based manufacturer of residential and commercial controls and security products offer a complete line of smoke and carbon monoxide detectors.

House fires are real, very real. We all do our best to teach our children the basics (stay low, escape routes, get outside, the stop-drop-roll technique, call 911, etc.) and we try to practice fire safety but we never think that it will happen to us. But the reality is that it can, and it can all happen in the blink of an eye.

Did you know that, according to FEMA and the U.S. Fire Administration, over 3,400 Americans die in home fires per year and nearly 18,000 narrowly escape with their lives and make it out with injuries – temporary and/or lifelong. One of the simplest steps that you can take to protect yourself from the wrath of a fire is to install smoke alarms and to insure that they are working properly.

Up until now, with most smoke alarms, the batteries needed to be changed quite frequently (every sixth months or so). Now, despite having a good amount of batteries in our house, we don’t really replace the batteries in any one item until we try it and figure out that it no longer works. That is certainly not a situation you’d want to be in  the event of a fire. You want to be one hundred percent sure that your alarms work as they should and have good batteries in order to do so.

When it comes to a life or death situation, you never want to look back and say “If only I had checked the batteries.” Your life and the lives of your family members are far more important and if the simple act of swapping out an old battery for a new one could mean someone’s wellbeing over the potential loss of life, well, it is certainly a task worth doing. Since this is still an often forgotten task, Kidde came up with a solution – their line of Worry-Free smoke alarms.

Kidde Worry-Free smoke and carbon monoxide alarms offer ten years of continuous battery powered protection. There are NO batteries that need changing! Powered by a sealed, life-long lithium battery, these alarms are always on and you can rest easy knowing that you and your family are prepared.

The Kidde line of Worry-Free smoke alarms features four different models designed for location-specific safety needs such as added lights to help one find their way out of a dark hallway and smart sensing technology for kitchen alarms to reduce unnecessary nuisance alarm sounds caused by cooking. Additionally, Kidde offers two Worry-Free carbon monoxide alarms to further protect one’s family and house.

Of course, with kitchens being the leading area of origin for home fires, I knew to start there. Aside from that, it was a guessing game of where would the potential fire start and where would it travel to from there. Thankfully, with help from Kidde, we were able to pinpoint which locations in our house needed alarms the most and we’ve begun installing them throughout. We also put in fire extinguishers in the kitchen to make sure we were ready.

BUY:
You can purchase Kidde Worry-Free smoke and carbon monoxide alarms direct from their online store as well as Home Depot, both, online and in-stores nationwide. Prices start as low as $29.

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Be sure to keep up with Kidde via social media on their Facebook and Twitter pages to stay up to date on all of the latest news, new product releases, special promotions, and great safety tips to help your family stay safe.

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