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5 lucky winners will receive a firefighters pack thanks to Duracell. Each Duracell and Fire and Emergency Services Prize Pack contains….

  • Fire Fighter Costume
  • First Alert Smoke & Fire Alarm
  • St John Ambulance Patch n Go First aid Kit
  • Torch
  • Duracell 9v Ultra Batteries

For the fifteenth year running Duracell and Australia’s fire and emergency services are banning together to urge all Australians to change their smoke alarm battery when they turn back their clocks for Daylight savings on Sunday, April 5.

The 2015 Duracell Fire Safety Study has revealed that while 97% of Australians say they would not get in a car with someone who is over the legal blood alcohol limit, 95% would not run a red light while driving, and 92% would not run across train tracks, most are prepared to neglect their household smoke alarms by not complying with recommendations from fire and emergency services.

When it comes to protecting you and your family, smoke alarms provide an essential early warning and time to evacuate safely – but only if they work. Duracell recommends using long-lasting 9V Ultra alkaline batteries to ensure year round protection.

Visit www.facebook.com/Duracell for more information.

FIRE SERVICES RECOMMEND THAT YOU:

  • Replace your smoke alarm with a new unit every 10 years. Australia’s fire and emergency services recommend photoelectric smoke alarms which meet the Australian Standard for smoke alarms.
  • Test your smoke alarm (by pressing the ‘test’ button) once a month to ensure the battery and the alarm sounder are operating and clean with a vacuum cleaner annually to remove the particles that will affect smoke alarm performance
  • If your smoke alarm is not a 10-year sealed smoke alarm, replace the battery annually with a long-lasting 9V alkaline battery. For those with hard wired smoke alarms, you will need to replace your back up battery.
  • Install smoke alarms in positions that will wake all occupants in the home and give them time to evacuate. For example, installing the alarms in each sleeping area, with additional smoke alarms installed along the paths of travel to exits i.e. hallways and living areas. If you live in a house with more than one level, install a smoke alarm on the ceiling at the head of the stairway connecting the levels.
  • Go to your local fire and emergency services website for step-by-step instructions on how to develop a home escape plan that is known to each family member, and practised regularly. Please note that a home fire escape plan is not a bushfire survival plan.

Please note this competition is open from 1st April 2015 until 12th April 2015 and is only available to members of Mouths Of Mums. We are unable to accept entries posted via facebook. Facebook LIKE functionality is not a requirement of entry to this competition. The winners of this competition will be published on this page. Winners’ name and address will be provided to the promoter of this competition and prizes will be sent to the address you have in Your Profile. Please ensure your details are up to date so that you receive your prize.

Winners for this competition

  1. M. BrownWA
  2. T. SchmittQLD
  3. R. SextonVIC
  4. R. HusseinVIC
  5. M. RobertsVIC
  • A child who is is paranoid about safety – she makes me test it every week without fail since hearing of a local family who managed to escape their burning house because of a smoke alarm.


  • An obvious one is daylight savings ending here in NSW but that doesn’t work for everybody, so i like to do it on my birthday as a present to me and my family safety first and i never forget this way


  • An obvious one is daylight savings ending here in NSW but i prefer to do it on my birthday as a little present to myself and my families safety, i never forget this way either


  • Every Christmas when I burn the pork crackle and sets it off 🙂


  • My children are a constant reminder to change the battery’s in my smoke alarm, the only battery’s I have ever trusted to use in it is Duracell!


  • My daughters birthday. On the day of her birth we had to rush my son to the emergency room with croup, I forgot the oven was on. Thank god my mum was staying with us. But I’ll never forget it!


  • The anniversary of when I bought my house – We always have a little celebration and we make sure we change the batteries before we are allowed to celebrate


  • My gorgeous boys are constant reminders to keep us safE


  • When my hubby tries to make toast I always look straight to the smoke alarm


  • I change the battery in my smoke alarm on my birthday.


  • Wonderful daylight savings, an absolute blessing to be reminded every year


  • Always when we change the clocks at the beginning and end of Day light savings. Then If and only If I forget, its when i get woken up at night to the annoying beeping.


  • My smoke alarm beeps at me when the batteries need to be changed.


  • Since years I change my Fire alarm when Daylight savings changes and the Duracell Batteries are being used because of the very effective advertising campaigns with the bunny also a good reminder. I live in a very old small house but I still would not want to loose it


  • Day light savings, the the changes we change our batteries- every 6 months


  • Every time i accidently burn some toast and manage not to burn the house down is a sigh of relief and a reminder about how lucky we are to have smoke alarms and that i should change the batteries


  • Daylight savings


  • Daylight savings! After having a fire that destroyed half our home 18 months ago, we religiously change our batteries, as our smoke alarm saved our lives. Very grateful to this daylight savings campaign. We’re still rebuilding, & this prize would be a wonderful addition to our home. Thank you.


  • I should know better, but it’s usually when the alarm starts beeping. I am going to go and write it on the family calendar right now – good reminder


  • Any time I see something about the Fire Service as well as their advertising around Daylight Saving Time, I think about changing the battery on all the smoke alarms.


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