Connecticut Red Cross encourages everyone to test smoke alarms as they turn their clocks back. Here in Connecticut, the Red Cross reports that over the past year, their volunteers responded to help over 3,100 people in Connecticut affected by around 800 home fires.
On a "lighter" note, according to the Old Farmer’s Almanac, "Benjamin Franklin’s “An Economical Project,” written in 1784, is the earliest known proposal to “save” daylight. It was whimsical in tone, advocating laws to compel citizens to rise at the crack of dawn to save the expense of candlelight: