Daylight Savings Time

Published March 8, 2012 | By Donna Dollar

Daylight saving time begins Sunday so the Las Cruces Fire Department recommends testing your smoke or fire alarms!

Daylight saving time begins at 2 a.m. Sunday March 11th and the Fire Department

encourages the installation of new batteries and the manual testing of all smoke

alarms at least two times a year, perferably at the beginning and end of daylight

savings time. To check the operation of a smoke detector, simply press and hold

the alarm’s “test” button. If it beeps, or rings loudly, it’s working properly.

Consumers should avoid testing a detector by using candles or matches placed

under the alarm as repeated use of smoke to activate the device can cause

them to fail when an actual fire occurs.