 The Appalachian Advantage plan is the simpler, better way to get the phone you actually want instead of paying hundreds of dollars up front. Simply pay the taxes up front and a few extra dollars a month and get the phone you really want. It's called the Appalachian Advantage, available at Appalachian Wireless. With temperatures beginning to drop, many are turning on heat in their homes. No matter wood, gas or electric heat, there are simple safety checks to perform to keep you and your family safe. With heating your home, you want to make sure that it's ventilated. So whether it be a gas or propane fed stove, just follow the manufacturer's recommendations on that. So some of them are ventless, some of them do have to be vented. It's always good to have them inspected annually by a professional to make sure everything's working properly. If it is an electrical powered heater, we want to make sure that we're not overloading a circuit or plugging too many things into that specific circuit. So we want to make sure that we keep space around it. That's with any kind of heating element. That way we're not catching things on fire if they're too close. Over 150 people die each year in the United States from accidental carbon monoxide poisoning. While checking your smoke detectors, it is also important to check CO detectors. With our carbon monoxide detectors, one thing people might not understand or realize about CO is it's colorless and it's odorless. So it can poison us without us realizing it. So very important for us to have carbon monoxide detectors and we want to check on them every six months. So usually we say we tell everyone when the time changes, we'll go ahead and check it. That's the same thing for our smoke detectors. So that just keeps us safe and lets us know, hey, there is a buildup of carbon monoxide because otherwise we wouldn't know it. For more information on how to stay safe this winter, go to NFPA.org. For Mountain Top News, I'm Brianna Robinson.