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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
February 24, 2013
No one wants to see another person die in a house fire, and smoke alarms and smoke detectors make that far less likely than it was in the 1970s, when people began installing the devices in their homes.
Yet the devices only work when the batteries that supply them with power are in good shape,....