Tagged and Bagged: alarm, smoke
That’s what I woke up to this morning. It was faint, but piercing. The smoke alarm had gone off in the apartment beside us. Its vacant right now, as the landlord’s renovating it. So, I went over with a flashlight and, like a peeping tom or a burgler, I peered in every window for signs of smoke. No signs, so I called the landlord to come over and shut it off.
This, I consider to be proof that a smoke alarm will wake you if there is a fire. I was next door and the sound could be heard through two walls, as well as out in the yard.
If you don’t have a smoke alarm already, get one! If you haven’t recently, change the battery in yours. It may save your life!
Carbon monoxide detectors will too. Our old one went off in the middle of the night once, and I thought it was the smoke detector at first. Turned out that the CO dectector was just going bad because all the windows were open so no CO could build up. Threw that one away (it was the previous owner’s) and bought new ones. Hmm, I think it is time to test the smoke detectors…
Yeah, most people don’t think about carbon monoxide detectors either. I have two smoke/fire detectors and a carbon monoxide detector. Better safe than sorry.
I agree, got my fire alarm and carbon monoxide alarm. Definately better to be safe than sorry…