Recent national research has shown that only 28% of households who own a smoke alarm, actually test it on a regular basis. If you don’t have a working smoke alarm, you are 7 times more likely to die in a house fire. While this is a scary statistic, it can be easily avoided. Making sure that you have fitted your smoke alarms appropriately, and that you test the battery regularly, can be the difference between making it to safety or getting caught.