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Smoke alarms save three persons in a duplex fire in Wisconsin

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122293) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 7 Jun 25

Firefighters from the Kiel Fire Department answered an emergency call on Friday morning around 2:30am when a stove fire started in the kitchen of a duplex that was spreading to the kitchen cabinets. When the firefighters arrived...

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Tough Question.

koopharper @koopharper (7599) • Canada 15 Apr 12

Why is it that if I put the toast in the toaster just little too long and burn it just a little bit my smoke alarm goes off? Yet I can work with a dull blade on my chopsaw and cut spruce two by fours until the entire apartment is...

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Thank goodness for smoke detectors!

dragon54u @dragon54u (31633) • United States 9 Mar 09

Have you ever not taken your own advice? Just the other day I advised a friend of mine here to use a kitchen timer so that her water doesn't boil dry and then today I didn't follow my own advice! I heard the smoke alarm going off...

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Is It Illegal To . . . ?

Deborah L. Alten @gtargirl (5376) • United States 10 Oct 08

There's a beeping in our house and it won't go away. We know it's the smoke alarm but there's just one problem. We've already taken the battery out but it keeps on going. LOL. It has the pink bunny syndrome. Then we got a drill...

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Do you have a fire or carbon dioxide detectors in your home?

kaysue4 @kaysue4 (951) • United States 21 Mar 08

I keep telling myself that I am going to buy these, but often forget. Then I see reports that kids that are in a deep sleep never hear them! Then there is an alarm being studied that if the mom's voice is put into the alarm they...

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Cooking Smiles

helpful_ideas @helpful_ideas (1620) • United States 30 Apr 07

So, we moved into a townhome with very sensitive smoke detectors, a few months later my husband got a job at a new company. In the past (as any of my ex-roommates can attest) I have not cooked often, but when I did cook, there...

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Are You Health and Safety Conscious?

ItTakesAllSorts @ItTakesAllSorts (4096) 15 Apr 07

Do you have a smoke alarm in your home that works? Are you aware of fire exits when you visit a restaurant or cinema. Do you have safety locks on everything to protect your kids? OR Do you think we have all gone mad and there...

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Smoke alarms

MsTickle @MsTickle (25180) • Australia 8 Apr 07

I have a friend who does jobs arounfd the house for me. Last October he bought me a smoke alarm (also a fire extinguisher and a vice) for my birthday. (I received a long handled shovel for Christmas). He came over today to...

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Don't Let This Happen To You

kelly60 @kelly60 (4546) • United States 12 Mar 07

You can never be too careful when it comes to safety. I know from experience. Fifteen years ago, someone removed the batteries from our smoke alarm because something spilled in the bottom of the oven while we were cooking dinner....

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Changing the clocks not the only thing you should do

spider2007 @spider2007 (250) • United States 11 Mar 07

We are all talking about changing the clocks but there is some thing else we need to remember to do and that is changing the batteries in your smoke alarms they say that the best time to change the batteries is at time change even...

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Try this test for the safety of your children

samsonskola @samsonskola (3357) • United States 8 Feb 07

Last night I watched a news report that showed parents testing the response of their sleeping children to a smoke alarm going off. In almost EVERY test, the blaring sound of the smoke alarm going off either didn't wake their...

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Smoke Detecters

delina123 @delina123 (2453) • Canada 15 Nov 06

How often do you check them to make sure they are still working( once a month)

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