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Check Your Clocks, Fairfield County: Did You Remember To Fall Back?

FAIRFIELD COUNTY, Conn. -- As Daylight Saving Time ends early Sunday in Fairfield County, don't forget the adage: Spring forward, fall back.

Daylight Saving Time has ended. Set your clocks back now!

Daylight Saving Time has ended. Set your clocks back now!

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Check the time on your electronic devices, clocks and car: Did you remember to set them back an hour before going to bed last night? Most electronic devices reset their time automatically, but old-fashioned clocks and watches need to be fixed by hand.

And the time to do it is now because overnight at 2 a.m., Daylight Saving Time came to end for 2013.

Fairfield County residents are also reminded that this is a good time to remember to change the batteries in your home's smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors.

The City of Stamford Fire Department is joining nearly 6,000 fire departments nationwide in promoting the annual ‘‘Change Your Clocks, Change Your Batteries’’ campaign Sunday.

Stamford Fire Marshal Charles Spaulding stated that 65 percent of all home fire deaths occur in homes without a working fire alarm. Although 96 percent of homes have an alarm, nearly one-fifth of those alarms do not work, largely because of damaged or dead batteries.

Stamford's Director of Public Safety, Health and Welfare Thaddeus Jankowski encourages all residents to adopt the simple, lifesaving habit of changing smoke alarm batteries when they change their clocks back from daylight savings time to standard time. “The simplest, most effective way to protect yourself, your family and your loved ones is to have properly installed smoke and carbon monoxide detectors. They are the only things in the home that can alert you of the dangers of fire and carbon monoxide 24 hours a day, seven days a week.”

And with an extra hour on your hands, you have time to test and change the batteries in your smoke and carbon monoxide detectors when you change your clocks Sunday. 

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