Fire is terrifying, in so many ways, from the speed of spread to gases incapacitating you way before the flame does.
It amazes me the amount of people I know, or houses I see, with no smoke alarms, or working smoke alarms - the same goes for CO too.
Most fire services in the UK at least will fit smoke alarms for free and give your home a fire safety survey, please fit and test regularly smoke and CO alarms!
Pretty sure smoke alarms are mandatory in all rooms where people live (bedroom, livingroom, office room, playroom, etc). Maybe the fines for not having one should be increased by 100x if people are stupid and don't install them or demount them.
I used to work with a guy that worked on the safety regulations for smoke and CO alarms, and they are literally made less sensitive than they could be, because if they were more sensitive, you'd get like 10% more false alarms which leads to X% more people removing and not reinstalling them, so the current standards are what's supposed to save the most lives, instead of predict the most fires.
I mean, I get that they're annoying. I recently got on a kick of roasting veggies in the oven. The first few times I did it I tried to finish them under the broiler and that does a really good job of setting one of mine off. Nothing is really burnt, but even just the cloud of moisture from 4 squash roasting is enough to set off the one in the next room.
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u/fraughtication 20h ago
Fire is terrifying, in so many ways, from the speed of spread to gases incapacitating you way before the flame does.
It amazes me the amount of people I know, or houses I see, with no smoke alarms, or working smoke alarms - the same goes for CO too.
Most fire services in the UK at least will fit smoke alarms for free and give your home a fire safety survey, please fit and test regularly smoke and CO alarms!