330 homes visited on LRGHealthcare's Senior Safety Day

LACONIA — In conjunction with area fire departments, LRGHealthcare held its 15th Annual Senior Safety Day on October 17.

This year's event reached over 330 homes across the region. Senior citizens had a free home visit from their local fire department to supply and change their smoke detector batteries or smoke detectors free of charge.

For 15 years, LRGHealthcare has raised money to provide the batteries and smoke detectors and worked with area fire departments to offer this program. Participating communities include Franklin, Tilton/Northfield, Sanbornton, Belmont, Hill, Andover, Bristol, New Hampton, Meredith, Center Harbor, Moultonborough, Laconia, and Gilford.

LRGHealthcare Community Educator, Melissa Lee comments, "We'd like to thank all our participating area fire departments for helping us keep seniors safe and independent living in their homes. We're making homes safer and more importantly, keeping people safe and we're appreciative of the work our local fire departments do to help make that happen."

Smoke detectors are an early warning that you don't want to be without. It's recommended that if your smoke detectors are over ten years old, they should be replaced. And, general rule of thumb is to change the batteries in your detectors when you change your clocks in the fall and spring.