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Florida Chief Financial Officer donned her hat as State Fire Marshall today to dispense holiday safety tips. For starters, don’t leave your tree or outside decorations on when you leave the house, water your tree, make sure the light cords for your tree aren’t frayed, and don’t forget to blow out any candles before going to bed or leaving the house. Sink says the most important item you need could save you if you don’t heed the safety tips.

“Well, you’ve heard some very valuable tips, but if there’s one most important thing that a family can do it’s this little thing right here, the smoke detector,” Sink said. “First of all, that you have smoke detectors in your homes and secondly, they don’t do any good unless the batteries are operational.”

Sink says to check the batteries in smoke detectors at least once a month.