Testing the Smoke Alarms

3 CommentsHome in the Rookery, Just for Laughs

Christmas is a good time for getting things done.  Plenty of multi-tasking opportunities, too.  Tonight, I decided to really be efficient and simultaneously cook dinner, get some cleaning done in the bedroom, and…test the smoke alarms.

Okay, so maybe that last one wasn’t planned.

The good news is, there was no fire and I salvaged dinner.  The bad news?  The smoke alarms failed.  The house was nearly full of smoke, enough to make your eyes sting and keep you coughing.  Definitely should’ve been enough to set off the alarms, but not a peep.

I think Santa might be getting our house a present!

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  1. Cindy

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    Well have you seen those new(ish?) reports that show that regular smoke alarms fail to wake up children anyway? That was certainly sobering!

    Glad dinner was salvageable…

  2. Jeff Draper

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    Sons Numbered One and Two wouldn’t wake up if I put the alarm next to their head. Unfortunately, Son Number Three seems to wake up whenever a moth sneezes. (And then he wants to jump up and down on our bed.)

  3. Suanne

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    Yeah, that sounds like our kids. Our daughter would sleep right through it, our son would wake up, but see it as a good excuse to get up and read. At least working alarms would wake us up, though. One hopes.

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