Smoke Detectors in General

As the title of this op suggests, this is a serious subject; so there's no witty title and no funny stories. This is a piece of advice that, as the title suggests, may help to save your life in the event of a fire in your home. I hope you never have to test out its effectiveness, but if you invest in a smoke alarm, you may be making one of the most sensible purchases of your life. I'm sure you are aware that many injuries and deaths caused by fires could be prevented if the people concerned were able to get out in time. If they had a warning of the fire in their house they could have some chance of escape. A smoke alarm is a way of providing a warning ...  Read the complete review

I am doing this review on smoke detectors in general, I will not mention any by name but the review refers to all of them. Smoke detectors in general - can be bought for about the reward for a good review, with a crown of course! Smoke alarms - Smoke Detectors, call them what you will. If you don't have one, don't stop reading, ask yourself why not? Go let me say that as a Fireman or more properly Firefighter these days, for over thirty years, I have seen the results of House fires close up, including ones where there were no smoke alarms, and will live with those memories for the rest of my life. Until recently, smoke alarms were not ...  Read the complete review

I am a senior fire officer with 30 years experience of fire fighting having spent most of that time working in and around the West Midlands. I have attend a number of house fires that have resulted in the death of the occupiers, it has also been my great misfortune to have attended some that involved the death of children. In all of those incidents involving the death of children a fitted, working smoke alarm would have made a difference. I have in the last 7 years attended 3 incidents that involved multiple child deaths, 4 in one and 3 each at the other two.It is impossible for me to explain how that feels other than to say it is a nightmare ...  Read the complete review

I will begin this opinion by telling you that, ever since we had a fire at home when I was about 7 years old, I have been petrified of fire. In fact I am even scared of burnt out buildings! It was in the old days of real fires and using something across the front of the fireplace to ‘draw’ the fire up the chimney to get it going. Mom used a piece of corrugated cardboard, got the fire going and, not realising that the cardboard was smouldering, put it away in the cubby-hole where we stored my toys and some other bits and pieces. When she returned to get something from the cubby-hole later flames greeted her as she opened the door. We were ...  Read the complete review

FIRE STARTER… As most of you know we had a fire 3 weeks back, in our flat! The flat was gutted through to our living room, contents the lot were lost. This happened due to my son Nicki, it was around 12.30 on the Sunday night, I had just had a cigarette at our front door as we didn’t smoke in the flat anymore, so put my lighter back into my coat pocket, hung up at front door, and went into the living room to turn everything of before going to bed. I had just got my night clothes on, then I heard Nicki shouting for Becca, then all I heard was Becca shouting for me, usually I wouldn’t bother to go in but was very late to ...  Read the complete review