Do you have good smoke alarms in your personal house and rentals? We have the standard smoke alarms in our personal house - but they are crap! If you have the cheap, standard smoke alarms in your personal house or rentals, I would change them immediately.
Yesterday we got a new mattress. I stupidly left the old mattress in the hallway, leaning against a low light. My wife equally stupidly turned on the lower lights last night. Result = we almost had a major fire. Lucky my wife noticed the smell and just got to it in time. Note, fire extinguishers make a big mess and it takes about 25 minutes for fire trucks to get to our place (pretty good for out in the country).
BUT - the smoke alarm right above the fire did nothing! The fire department said a good photoelectric smoke alarm would have been set of a lot earlier!
Ross
Yesterday we got a new mattress. I stupidly left the old mattress in the hallway, leaning against a low light. My wife equally stupidly turned on the lower lights last night. Result = we almost had a major fire. Lucky my wife noticed the smell and just got to it in time. Note, fire extinguishers make a big mess and it takes about 25 minutes for fire trucks to get to our place (pretty good for out in the country).
BUT - the smoke alarm right above the fire did nothing! The fire department said a good photoelectric smoke alarm would have been set of a lot earlier!
Ross
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