Don't become a victim - change your smoke alarm battery

We are absolutely thrilled to be giving our MoMmies the chance to win a prize pack from Duracell and Hasbro!

FIVE lucky winners will receive the below prize pack thanks to Duracell and Hasbro

1 x Quell Smoke Alarms
1 x Children’s fire helmet
1 x Hasbro Super Soaker Thunderstorm
1 x Play-Doh Boomer the Fire Truck
2x Duracell 9V Batteries for the smoke alarm
4x AA batteries for the Super Soakers

Don’t become a victim – change your smoke alarm battery

Is your home fire safe? A new survey of Australians commissioned by Duracell has revealed that asmany as 70 per cent of parents are not planning ahead in case of fire and proactively changing their smoke alarm batteries every year. Despite the lack of fire safety practices at home, almost half of Australian parents (47 per cent) consider a house fire more scary than common phobias including poisonous snakes (18 per cent) and spiders (11 per cent), aggressive dogs (8 per cent) and sharks (7 per cent).Australia’s fire & emergency services together with long-term partner Duracell are now in their 14^th year of encouraging Australians to have a working smoke alarm and a practiced home escape plan. When it comes to protecting you and your family, smoke alarms are crucial in giving you the early warning needed to escape a fire so don’t be a fool and change your smoke alarm battery today if you haven’t changed it in the last year!

Australia’s fire & emergency services recommend using long-lasting 9V alkaline batteries, testing the smoke alarm once a month and changing the batteries each year to ensure year-round protection.

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

*The 2014 Duracell Fire Safety Survey - Research was conducted nationally by Galaxy Research, on behalf of Duracell, in January, 2014. A total of 1,264 parents comprising fathers and mothers with children aged 17 years or younger were surveyed.

Please note this competition is open from 5th May 2014 until 5th June 2014 and is only available to members of Mouths Of Mums. We are unable to accept entries posted via facebook. 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

D. MarrQLD
K. JaenschSA
K. MilneNSW
M. MoodyVIC
J. O'BrienQLD

Entries so far
This Competition is Closed

- - Kerry McKenzie said
  - 06 Jun 2014
    7:20 pm
No open heaters and new batteries in our alarms. Plus teaching our 3yo a fire plan. Making sure we have an exit in all areas of the house.
- - mom57869 said
  - 06 Jun 2014
    4:15 pm
we declutterd stuf away from power points,and we make sure everything turned of at the power points before we go to bed..
- - robyn_smithwick said
  - 06 Jun 2014
    4:13 pm
I have made sure the smoke alarm batteries are working efficiently and the fire guards are in place securely.
- - saiko68 said
  - 06 Jun 2014
    2:01 pm
We haven’t actually and just discovered the other night our fire alarms (wired aren’t working) Hubby left a glass pie dish on the stove and it exploded (pie totally burnt) there was smoke everywhere….Luckily the kids were no where near the kitchen, perhaps this was a message to get it seen to as there are new batteries in all our alarms so it must be the wiring!
- - mom60715 said
  - 06 Jun 2014
    1:34 pm
Declutter what we do not need and made sure our fire alarms have new battery.
- - ardetha36 said
  - 06 Jun 2014
    1:31 pm
smoke detectors in several rooms, fire blanket, small fire extinguisher, a fire proof safe, fire proof satchels for important documents, no small electric heaters, no candles in rooms, have electrical equipment checked yearly, clean up rubbish and leaves outside weekly
- - jackiej said
  - 06 Jun 2014
    11:49 am
You can never to too safe with your family. Two more smoke alarms would be terrific. Plus the kids stuff would be so much fun for my son.
- - netty2 said
  - 06 Jun 2014
    11:28 am
We have all electrical tagged appliances especially electric blankets tested and checked by our electrician annually.
- - louise_smith said
  - 06 Jun 2014
    10:38 am
we have a declutter day and emergency drills every holidays. Have removed all heaters and only use the aircon or blankets
- - clairee said
  - 06 Jun 2014
    9:59 am
changed smoke alarm batteries and ditched the electric blankets for fluffy warm doonas instead
- - melpaul3 said
  - 06 Jun 2014
    9:40 am
I make sure all electric blankets are off before I leave the house and we have cleaned the gutters out also
- - mom58153 said
  - 06 Jun 2014
    9:38 am
yes batteries in smoke alarms fresh and changed
- - kathryn said
  - 06 Jun 2014
    9:18 am
checked the smoke alarm batteries and also checked the chimney
- - mom62637 said
  - 06 Jun 2014
    9:03 am
To be honest, I haven’t. We live in a very old home and our smoke detector is not working.
- - magiklee said
  - 06 Jun 2014
    8:36 am
Yes we have fire alarms and fire blankets in our house. We also turn off the power at the gas/electric oven and stove top and other electrical items we’re not using at the time.