by Terrie Porter, Assistant to Joe Maggiore
Chirp…chirp…chirp…
It’s 2:00am and you’re sound asleep, but the constant chirp awakens you. Stumbling through the house, you try finding just which smoke detector’s battery is going dead. Of course it’s the one in the highest part of the vaulted ceiling and the ladder is buried in the garage.
You do what any sleep-deprived person would do and hope you have a good 9-volt battery in the junk drawer. Then proceed to pull the dining table over and place it under the offending detector, then place a chair on top of the table. Cautiously crawling onto the table, carefully balancing on the chair, you reach the detector and replace the battery. Adrenaline pumping from your precarious perch on the chair, you find later that you can’t go back to sleep.
This is NOT the time or the method to use to replace these important batteries.
This is a friendly reminder to replace your smoke detector batteries before they die. Next time you’re at the store and see that 6-pack of 9-volt batteries, buy them. Go home, dig the ladder out of the garage and SAFELY replace those batteries during the day.