After we got back from our off-road adventure on Wednesday, we went over to the presentation area to hear a presentation on being "Red Cross Ready". A fellow from the Red Cross chapter talked about several subjects, including compression-only CPR (https://www.redcross.org/get-help/how-to-prepare-for-emergencies/hands-only-cpr.html, https://www.uscpronline.com/blog/chest-only-cpr-saves-more-lives) and the importance of having working smoke detectors.
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| Presentation from American Red Cross |
The Red Cross will provide smoke detectors for no-charge but they have to come to install them. If I understood correctly, the smoke detectors are donated, and the donor requirement is that the Red Cross ensures that they are correctly installed.
Since we've done research on smoke detectors in the past, and know that only certain units are certified for used in RVs, and that we specifically would want a photoelectric smoke detector or combination photoelectric-ionization smoke detector (which are more expensive units and probably not what was donated and what the Red Cross would install), we elected *not* to take advantage of the free smoke detectors but to take the opportunity to check our existing smoke and carbon monoxide detectors.
We found that one had a battery that was almost 2 years old - so we replaced the battery (and put 9V batteries on our shopping list as that was the last one we had in our spares box).
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| One of our units indicates that it is a 10-year smoke and carbon monoxide alarm... |
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| The information on the back indicates that it is a photoelectric smoke/CO alarm, but the date on it indicates May 19, 2013 -- so it is past its 10 year lifespan and should be replaced. Something to order from Amazon when we get back to Mesa! |
It is good for us to go to these types of presentations because otherwise we can easily just neglect to check on these types of items on a regular basis. Have *you* checked your smoke alarms recently?
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