Does your home have a smoke detector?

Glad

thought you were going to say vibrating rabbit for a minute

phew

Mandy_Thompson

Hi Nile

Just wanted to report that I have just checked both of my alarms and all is well. The downstairs one goes off all the time, but we do forget about the upstairs one.

Thank you for remaining us.

Mandy

flossie_2

Don't shout at me , please , i'll do it I promise  :)

Do you mean the battery from my vibrating.........

OK we'll not shout anymore and 'cos your being good you can have one last go before you take the battery out of the :-/



















alarm clock    :D

flossie_2

Oh stupid me I did that wrong - that's what happens when I get excited ... the thought of alarm clocks ... mmm

Glad

what you need is a BIG one



































with bells on ;D

flossie_2

Ha! I'm off to watch Nip/Tuck - that'll take the edge off it

elfmay

NILE GREAT POST  ;D
dont know if this is still going on or just regional(will enquire) but i got  my smoke alarms free (& fitted) from our local fire brigade. some sort of rep called and asked if we had them, berated me when i said no ( :-[) and fitted them there & then. was a while back but the local fire station come out now & then to check them too! (one of my fav. days of the year ) thinking about it now though it seems a really long time since they last called out so best change batteries just in case.
also my son brought a form home from school last wk to do with smoke alarms for over 60's my gran and ALL her pensioners group have filled it in to receive a free fire safety check and smoke alarms. will try to find out if its widespread or something to do with the school (didn't reaaly take much notice of it sorry :-/ just passed it on to gran, now she would be great on here HATES spending money )  but would certainly recommend getting in touch with local fire station to see if they are running any similar schemes.



Whatever the cost though please fit & maintain smoke alarms it is a matter of life and death a friend of mine received horrific burns & lost a brother in a house fire, they never had them!

Nile

SHEEL, I'M VERY CROSS WITH YOU! ::)

An alarm clock won't wake you if you've been overcome by smoke so take the batteries (if they're the same type?) out of the clock to put into your smoke alarm, or got out and buy batteries DO IT NOW!

For everyone else who is unsure, please don't 'get around to it'............buy a smoke detector today, fit it and test it.

Look at my first post to see what can happen if you don't have fitted and working smoke detectors in your home!

Lecture over, be safe

Cheers Nile

trafalgar_2

sorry Nile  :-[

I feel very small , and although it was in a car , not at home , I do know about the horrors of fire as my niece died from the resulting fire after the car in which she was a passenger , crashed. My brother and his wife weren't allowed to see her body and she had to be identified from a dirty piece of her clothing from home , so you'd think I would be doing all I could to make sure that I never have to be in that same awful position that my brother and his wife were in of knowing their daughter died horrifically and not being able to see her one last time. I am , at the very least , guilty of complacancy and I promise I will make sure that I do all I can to ensure my daughters , and of course my husband and I , are given the best possible chance of escaping should the worst come to the worst

My heart goes out to them and you after reading that story

Glad your going to take care of things now though :-*

trafalgar_2

Thankyou

As you can imagine , it's had a terrible effect on my brother and his wife , also my nephew , and they've had to have psychiatric help . Unfortunately since my niece died , my brother has also had a heart attack and now it looks like his marriage has ended , impossible to say whether those things would have happened anyway but my guess is they were a major contribution.

I'm so sorry to hear that , your probably right though , it probably will be a factor in all their lives for some time to come
I've no idea how you get past something like that, prehaps you never really do but I hope some day they will all turn that corner and things will be easier for ALL of you , cause it must be hard on everyone concerned
I wish you all well and hope one day what you remember are all the brilliant "little" things " in memory of your neice :-*