A few nights ago, I set our smoke alarm off again (it's a regular thing in our house - every time I cook chops).
We couldn't get it to stop so we had to take it down & pull the battery out. I forgot all about it & it didn't go back up that night. The next day I saw it sitting on the bench but DH wasn't home & I am not tall enough to put it up without a ladder - DH can just stand on a chair. I thought "I will have to remember to get him to put it back up", but of course forgot about it.
That night after DH had gone to sleep I lay in bed tossing & turning thinking about the fact that our smoke alarm wasn't up & hoping that our house didn't catch fire that night.
The next morning we got up to our street full of fire engines, police cars & ambulances.
Our neighbour's house had been completely burned out.
Needless to say, the smoke alarm was back up that day!
Apparently no-one was hurt in the fire.
Mopping up the remains of my mind.
9 years ago
2 comments:
oooohhhh, freaky! I had that panic too when we had to disable ours because they wouldnt stop because of the humidity. Glad all was okay for the neighbours.
When we lived in a very old timber house in Brisbane, before the days of smoke/fire alarms, I often lay awake worrying about how we would get everyone out safely in the event of fire. Fire alarms are a godsend.
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