(Photo Provided with Release Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Office of the State Fire Commissioner)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) According to a release from the Pennsylvania Office of the State Fire Commissioner, the Shapiro Administration is now reminding Pennsylvanians to change the batteries in their smoke and carbon monoxide (CO) alarms when moving their clocks ahead one hour for the “spring forward” time change on Sunday during the 2026 Daylight Saving Time. Functioning and properly placed smoke alarms can decrease the risk of someone dying in a home fire by as much as half. Dead or missing batteries are the most common cause of a malfunction of either a smoke or a carbon monoxide alarm.