With Fall Time Change, Public Reminded of Pedestrian Security, to Change Smoke Alarm Batteries

With Daylight Saving Time ending this weekend, Clark County officers are reminding the general public to alter the batteries of their residence smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors. The public is also urged to maintain pedestrian security in thoughts when one much less hour of daylight makes it tougher to see pedestrians and bicyclists, particularly throughout night commutes.

Clocks flip again one hour for the return of Standard Time at 2 a.m. on Sunday, Nov.2. Clark County is one in every of many group companions that helps the annual #Dusk2Dawn street & pedestrian security marketing campaign created by UNLV’s Transportation Research Center. The effort reminds pedestrians and motorists of the function they play in getting residence safely when the times are shorter and there may be much less visibility on roadways. Motorists are inspired to decelerate and pay shut consideration to pedestrians when it’s darker earlier. Pedestrians and bicyclists are urged to be as seen as attainable on roadways and in crosswalks. Anyone touring by foot, bicycle, scooter or comparable mode ought to put on reflective gear or lights to assist motorists see them, and by no means assume {that a} driver can see you simply since you are crossing legally in a crosswalk.

“We are asking motorists and pedestrians to be extra cautious when there is less daylight due to the time change,” stated Clark County Commissioner Michael Naft, a visitors security advocate. “Tragically, most fatal crashes involving pedestrians occur between dusk and dawn when it’s harder for motorists to see people on streets and sidewalks. It is critical that drivers slow down, pay extra attention, and use their headlights.”

Drivers ought to obey posted pace limits and keep targeted whereas driving. Pedestrians are inspired to make eye contact with drivers as they cross roadways and to solely cross streets at crosswalks and intersections.

Public security officers additionally remind the general public that fall is a perfect time of 12 months to make sure you have working smoke and carbon monoxide detectors.

“We encourage people to change the batteries in their smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors in the fall and the spring each year,” stated Clark County Fire Chief Billy Samuels. “This is a life-saving habit that can keep you and your family safe in the event of a fire or a problem with carbon monoxide levels in your home.”

Carbon monoxide (CO) is an odorless, colorless fuel created when fuels comparable to gasoline, wooden, coal, pure fuel or propane burn incompletely. Officials say any fuel-burning merchandise has the potential to provide harmful ranges of CO fuel together with cars, charcoal grills, fireplaces and woodstoves and fuel home equipment comparable to dryers, stoves and water heaters. Always preserve storage doorways open when working a automobile or different motor engine, and ensure vents for dryers, furnaces and comparable home equipment are clear. Generators must be utilized in well-ventilated areas away from home windows and doorways; fuel and charcoal grills ought to solely be used outside. Officials say when CO detectors and smoke alarms fail to function, it’s often as a result of the batteries aren’t working. Suggested ideas embrace:

Smoke Alarms

• Smoke alarms greater than 10 years outdated must be changed. Test smoke alarms not less than as soon as a month utilizing the take a look at button; substitute instantly in the event that they don’t reply correctly when examined.
• Make positive everybody within the residence understands the sound of the smoke alarm and find out how to reply.
• Chirping alarms are a warning signal that that battery is low and must be changed.
• Install smoke alarms in each bed room, outdoors every sleeping space and on each stage of the house.
• Smoke rises; set up smoke alarms following producer’s directions excessive on a wall or on a ceiling.
• Smoke alarms with strobe lights and vibration gadgets can be found for listening to impaired individuals.

CO Alarms

• Install in a central location outdoors every sleeping space of a house.
• Follow producer’s directions for placement and peak.
• Choose a CO alarm that has the label of a acknowledged testing laboratory.
• Test CO alarms not less than as soon as a month and substitute in response to producer’s directions.
• If the CO alarm sounds, instantly transfer to a contemporary air location outside or by an open window or door. Make positive everybody inside the house is accounted for. Call for assist from a contemporary air location and keep there till emergency personnel arrive.

Additionally, residents are inspired to apply a house escape route with your loved ones not less than twice a 12 months. A plan ought to embrace figuring out all attainable exists and escape routes in your house and discussing it with all members of your family. A gathering place additionally must be designated a protected distance outdoors your private home the place everybody can collect within the occasion of an emergency. For security recommendations on quite a lot of subjects, go to the Clark County Fire Department’s web site pages at

Daylight Saving Time returns on Sunday, March 8, 2026, with the setting of clocks one hour forward.

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Clark County is a dynamic and modern group devoted to offering top-quality service with integrity, respect and accountability. With jurisdiction over the world-famous Las Vegas Strip and masking an space the scale of New Jersey, Clark is the nation’s Eleventh-largest county and offers in depth regional providers to 2.4 million residents and 45.6 million guests a 12 months (2023). Included are the nation’s Fifth-busiest airport, air high quality compliance, social providers and the state’s largest public hospital, University Medical Center. The County additionally offers municipal providers which might be historically offered by cities to 1 million residents within the unincorporated space. Those embrace hearth safety, roads and different public works, parks and recreation, and planning and growth.