WEST Yorkshire Fire Service are asking people to check their smoke alarms when they put their clocks forward this weekend.

As part of the Government’s Fire Kills campaign, the service wants people to “tick tock test” their alarms, and help elderly parents and friends to do the same.

For many people, testing smoke alarms is often low on their list of priorities, so the Fire Kills campaign is asking people to make an online pledge, via their Facebook page, to test their smoke alarms this clock-change weekend.

People are at least four times more likely to die in a fire if they don’t have a working smoke alarm.

WYFRS area manager for fire safety Ian Bitcon said: “Many householders don’t realise that the smoke from a fire in the home is so dangerous that it can leave them for dead. Smoke will not wake you up if there is a fire in your home — it will kill you.

“If you know someone who may have difficulty testing their own smoke alarm then be a Good Samaritan and test it for them.”