"E92M3" (E46M3)
10/13/2019 at 18:08 • Filed to: None
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"E92M3" (E46M3)
10/13/2019 at 18:08 • Filed to: None | 3
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My cousin lost both her kids last week in a house fire. By the time she woke up, it was too late to save her children. Her room was on the main floor, and the stairs going up to the 2nd floor were already gone. When first responders arrived, they couldn’t even use a ladder to get to the kids windows on the 2nd floor. The house was fully engulfed. It was determined none of the smoke detectors were in working condition. She might of been able to get them out if she had been woken just 5 mins earlier by an alarm. She literally watched in horror as her house burned to the ground with her children inside. I can’t tell you how devastat ed she is. She will probabl y spend the rest of her life blaming herself for not having tested the smok e detectors. It breaks my heart to see her in so much pain, and nothing I can say or do can e ase that pain. I ‘m not posting this for condolences. Please, I just want everyone to test the ones in your homes. Minutes matter, seconds matter when it comes to fire . We never think this kind of tragedy will happen to us or to our family , until it does. One easy way to remember to test yours, is to make it a habit and do it twice a year when the time changes for daylight savings. Or use holidays like N ew Y ears and July 4th.
Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> E92M3
10/13/2019 at 18:46 |
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O h, what a terrible story. Our SDs are live powered, one in almost every room, and go around and replace the backup batteries yearly.
VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely
> E92M3
10/13/2019 at 18:46 |
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Jesu, what... her poor family... my condolenc es. Fuck
Our security system has a smoke/fire detector separate from the smoke detectors in our house, but we have a small house but our coverage is good. Please check your shit people.
Wacko
> E92M3
10/13/2019 at 19:06 |
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That’s why I got 2 battery powered and 2 hardwired.
That extremely sad.
CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
> E92M3
10/13/2019 at 19:29 |
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I highly recommend people get smart detectors that include C02 as well
facw
> E92M3
10/13/2019 at 19:47 |
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Terrible. Really they should all be hard-wired so you don’t have this sort of tragedy just because a battery died.
That said, I think a smart smoke detector, or at least one with a good “low battery” warning is way better than periodic testing. If you are testing twice a year, that means you could be going months with an inoperative device. Better to have a device that alerts you as soon as there is a problem rather than potentially going so long no knowing.
Also note: you are supposed to test monthly (as above still not enough) and replace batteries every 6-months (almost certainly overkill, but you can always used the partially charged batteries for something else). Some newer systems have permanent 10-year batteries (you should replace detectors at least that frequently), so obviously those don’t need to be changed.
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E92M3
> facw
10/13/2019 at 20:00 |
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Yeah, unfortunately her house was built before being hardwired was code. Even hardwired SD’s need the batteries replaced, in case the breaker gets tripped prior to or during the fire.
CB
> E92M3
10/13/2019 at 20:10 |
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I’ll be buying new ones next week. What an absolute tragedy.
jimz
> facw
10/13/2019 at 20:33 |
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hard-wired and with a built-in 10 year battery. seriously, even ones with 10 year lithium batteries are trivially cheap.
AND- if you really want coverage- you want a dual-sensor (ionization & photoelectric) detector. The standard ones we’ve been using for decades are ionization-type (if it says it has radioactive Americium-241, it’s an ionization detector.) Ionization detectors are better at sensing
flame.
Photoelectric detectors use an LED and an photocell in a dark chamber and are better at sensing
smoke
from a smoldering fire. They work by putting the LED and photocell in a housing and physically blocking the light from the LED from reaching the photocell. if smoke enters the detector, it scatters the light and the photocell picks it up triggering the alarm.
here’s a vid:
that cushion foam smolders for minutes and the ionization detector does nothing. the photoelectric detector triggers in
seconds.
DipodomysDeserti
> facw
10/13/2019 at 20:47 |
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Still test them. Being hardwired won’t tell you if they’re broken . Also, kids nee d to practice what to do when they go off.
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jimz
> DipodomysDeserti
10/13/2019 at 21:05 |
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adding to the problem is something I saw some years ago where the sound of a smoke alarm simply didn’t wake sleeping kids.
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DipodomysDeserti
> jimz
10/13/2019 at 21:53 |
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If your kid is that zoncked out, you’re fucked in case of a fire.
shop-teacher
> E92M3
10/14/2019 at 10:27 |
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Wow. There simply are no words ...
DesertDale
> E92M3
10/14/2019 at 18:09 |
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I’m so sorry to hear s uch a terrible tragedy. Besides replacing batteries, smoke detectors have a 10-year life and must all then be replaced. Twist the detector from the base and check “Date Manufactured”. If more than 10 years old, REPLACE them. The dual sensors, ionization and photoelectric, provide the best protection when hardwired with battery backup. Smoke detectors are best mounted at the ceiling while CO detectors are best mounted at 5 feet above the floor. For this reason, detectors for smoke AND carbon monoxide are a bad idea because of placement for best detection. Get a separate CO detector(s) to mount at 5'. Hardwired detectors rely on the battery only for backup during power failure.