Do you have working smoke detectors in your house?

[Driver]

Well done, Mick.

Yes - two detectors but this is a quite a big house and you've prompted me to go and get another three or four detectors. They're as cheap as chips and they can save my family so I'm going to buy some tomorrow morning.

Col

[journeyman Mick]

Ryan,
no interior attack, it was a relatively small house and open plan all the doors and windows were open and the main fire was readily accessed through the openings. Everything was well alight when we got there so there was little to be gained by a direct attack. No puppies to be saved and no time for happy snaps-except for the media and all the QFRS bigwigs who turned up for their few minutes of glory on the news. The local community is collecting household goods etc for the occupants, I'll have a rummage around in the wardrobe, not much fun being without warm clothes in winter

It's amazing how fast fire spreads once it catches hold, I think most people would race out and buy detectors if they knew how quickly a little fire can get big and out of control. For those renting, you can get detectors for less than $10 each, you could fit one every week if you smoked a few less ciggies or had a few less beers. (And if you smoke, you most definitely should have detectors!)

Mick

[ozwinner]

Slept right through a false alarm last year.
The alarm is only mm from our bedroom doors.
Only the angy prodding of SWMBO got me awake.

Al

[journeyman Mick]

Note to Al:
don't turn hearing aid off when you go to bed.

Mick

[Gingermick]

Only the angy prodding of SWMBO

Maybe you need to turn a u'd-be for her.

[ozwinner]

Note to Al:
don't turn hearing aid off when you go to bed.

Mick

[journeyman Mick]

Al
what's the emoticon doing/represent? :confused: Is he drooling? I even put my glasses on (hate the bloody things) and still can't work it out. :confused:

Myopic Mick

[ozwinner]

Al
what's the emoticon doing/represent? :confused: Is he drooling? I even put my glasses on (hate the bloody things) and still can't work it out. :confused:

Myopic Mick

Roll up, roll up, get your $2.50 glasses here.......
Thats all I paid for mine, and they work fine.

The emoticon is of a fine lady doing the stip of 1 thousand veils, gees Mick, get some new glasses!!

Al

[journeyman Mick]

Actually Al, they're my proper prescription glasses, not the $2.00 jobbies. Doesn't look like a dancing lady to me though.

Mick

[ozwinner]

$2.00!! theyre the cheap ones.

Go for the $ 2.50 ones.
He was supposed to be asleep and drooling BTW.

Al

[journeyman Mick]

Ok,
but is his hearing aid on and is there a working smoke alarm in his room.

Mick

[Iain]

My alarm started chirping at 3.00am, get up, find battery, change, back to bed.
Need to get hard wired so I don't get woken up next year.
Never had anything to do with CFA but spent three years firefighting with the old CF&L, dry firefighting, bloody hard woirk and if I ever meet the bastard who invented the rake hoe...........................

[journeyman Mick]

.....................bloody hard woirk and if I ever meet the bastard who invented the rake hoe...........................

Pretty unlikely Iain, a bloke by the name Macleod working with the forestry service in California about 50+ years ago.

Mick

[aussiecolector]

My alarm started chirping at 3.00am, get up, find battery, change, back to bed.
Need to get hard wired so I don't get woken up next year.
Never had anything to do with CFA but spent three years firefighting with the old CF&L, dry firefighting, bloody hard woirk and if I ever meet the bastard who invented the rake hoe...........................

Battery will still go flat in hard wired alarm.
I was living in a flat at the end of a dormitry once which was hooked up to the fire bregade. Cooking dinner one night with the exaust fan going over the stove the alarm goes off and two red trucks turn up. Turns out the fan blows into the ceiling space just below a smoke detector.

[ryanarcher]

Need to get hard wired so I don't get woken up next year.

do you have daylight savings time in Australia? the rule in my house is: when you change the clocks, change the smoke detector batteries.