Seattle Fire Department, Bartell Drugs and Energizer are teaming up to promote fire safety awareness and encourage the public to change the batteries in their smoke detectors when they change their clocks for Daylight Saving Time. This community event is part of Energizer’s annual Change Your Clock Change Your Battery® program.

On hand will be a fire truck, fire safety demonstrations, fun Energizer giveaways, family-friendly activities and educational materials.

The even will take place Saturday, November 1, 2014, Noon-3 p.m. at Bartell Drugs, 100 N. 85th Street, Seattle

So what's the urgency?

Consider these numbers: Home fires take the lives of more than 2,500 people each year in the United States alone.*

Energizer and the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) are partnering for the 27th year to help lower this toll, educate Seattle-area residents about fire safety and encourage people to adopt life-saving habits through the Change Your Clock Change Your Battery® program.

While there’s been an increase of homes with smoke detectors, the issue now is keeping the devices operating. According to the National Fire Protection Association, three out of five fatal fire injuries take place in homes without working smoke alarms. And 71 percent of smoke alarms that failed to operate had missing, disconnected or dead batteries.

Seattle’s Nov. 1 fire safety awareness event will provide a fun environment for families and individuals to learn how they can take simple, preventative steps to protect their loved ones and home.

For more information, please visit Energizer.com/CYCCYB.