 At Audiology Associates of Prestonsburg, you can live your life the way you want and find the freedom of better hearing. With 40 years of being in the hearing care industry, you'll experience patient care that is specific to you with exceptional follow-up care that ensures your hearing and balance needs are being met. Audiology Associates at 1428 Northlake Drive in Prestonsburg. Pikeville Fire Department is reminding everyone to check the batteries in their smoke and carbon monoxide detectors. Having an alarm in the house can save your life if a house fire were to occur unexpectedly. For those with a fireplace or wood stove, having a working carbon monoxide detector is just as important. So everyone should have a working smoke detector in their home and need to be checked about twice a year. So what I mean by that is locate the smoke detector, push the test functionality, make sure that it is actually working and change the battery. Usually we go around a lot savings time just as a general reminder to go ahead and check your detector and change the batteries out on it. That goes the same for your carbon monoxide CO2 detector, especially if you burn gas logs in your home or if you have a fireplace, if you burn a wood stove or anything like that, it's especially important just because those gases can build up in the home and they're odorless so we don't have any other way to detect them other than having that CO2 detector. Pikeville Fire Department also recommends having a fire extinguisher in the home as well as an escape plan. As always, contacting 911 should be a top priority during emergencies. Make sure that you have a working fire extinguisher in your home. So this is also a good time to locate your fire extinguisher, pull them out, check them, make sure that they are in date and if not, take them to a certified department that can certify them, recertify them or replace them. So you can always bring them by the fire station. We can take a look at them for you as well. A fire can break out at any time and that's our first line of defense. If it's a middle of the night and we're asleep, that's our alarm that will wake us up, wake our children up. And again, once we hear a smoke detector, we need to remember our safety escape plan so we want to get out of the home, stay out and call 911. That's what we always teach everyone and it's important that you make that plan with your family. That way, if an event arises like an emergency, you know what to do and you know where you can do a safety check on everyone once everyone exits the home. Reporting from Out in Top News, I'm Nick Colum.