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CHECK YOUR SMOKE ALARMS!!

KrakatoaKrakatoa1,000+ posts
We almsot lost everything last night in an electrical fire that started in the ceiling of my son's room. Though the upstairs is a disaster area, everyone's okay.

On this THanksgiving weekend, please go around and check your smoke alarms...change the batteries....test them....maybe get a CO2 detector hooked up as well.

Without a working smoke alarm, I'd be waking up to tell a very different story....if I woke up at all....it is STUNNING how fast that smoke can overcome you. Withing five seconds of running into my son's room, I was about out of it.......scary stuff.

Stay safe this holiday season Websters!! And be thankful!!

KRAK
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08Dad08Dad1,000+ posts
I am certainly sorry to hear about your fire - Thank goodness all are OK...

For what it is worth, an old fireman taught me when I was in school to change the batteries when I change the clocks - so twice a year. I know that is probably 4 times more often than required - but it is a easy to remember trigger for changing them.

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G gotwood4sale10,000+ posts
Wow Krak! I'm certainly relieved to hear that your family is ok. Like 44 I have a story as well.

I almost perished one cold winter night in Klamath Falls, OR back in '77. Heavy soot build-up in the chimney prevented the stove oil fired heater to vent properly. No smoke alarm in the small house I was renting. The smoke was dense and was layered down from the ceiling about five feet. Why I woke up in the early morning I'll never know, but if I hadn't I surely would never have become gotwood4sale!

I opened the door of my bedroom and then was exposed to the smoke. Being woozy already and not being fully awake I took one breath of that smoke and it buckled me to my knees. Fortunately I was able to crawl to the front door and opened it up to get fresh air.

I've fought many wildfires and eaten alot of smoke, but I was never affected like this. Once I got my wits about me that morning I disconnected the stove and wrestled it out of the house and into my landlord's snow covered alfalfa field.

The next two weeks before I bought a wood burning stove I lived without heat except for a small baseboard heater as the temperature dropped into single digits.

The strange things that happened during those two weeks is an entirely different story!

Again Krak...I'm glad to hear that everyone is safe.
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KrakatoaKrakatoa1,000+ posts
Thanks everyone -- we enjoyed a nice Thanksgiving and the landlord has everything set for a crew to come in all next week and redo all the wiring and fixtures throughout the house.

Army Public Affairs is also going to do an interview with us for a Holiday article reminding people to be extra careful with their tree and house lights, candles, etc........and mostly to make sure your smoke alarms are working!

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