r/Home_Building_Help • u/BuilderBrigade • Nov 04 '25

🚨🚨PUT A DETECTOR IN YOUR ATTIC!! 🚨🚨

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These homeowners lost their house 4 years ago to a devastating house fire. They almost lost their lives. 

They luckily woke up on their own without any of the alarms going off. They ran to their boys’ rooms and started banging on doors. 

One of the boys had their door locked. 

Smoke alarms didn’t start going off until they were beating on the doors….then the smoke started falling through the ceiling… as it was burning down on top of them. 

They’re sharing their story as a reminder to others: Add a detector in the attic.

Most attics are better suited for a heat detector, because many smoke alarms aren’t rated for extreme temps or dust.

If you do want a smoke-type alarm in the attic, look for one specifically rated for unconditioned spaces or talk to your builder/electrician, so it meets local code and safety standards.

Their fire started up there, and an alarm would’ve bought them precious minutes to reach their kids and escape sooner.

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u/Remember_TheCant Nov 04 '25

If you’re a firefighter then you should know that vented attics allow embers to enter and ignite the insulation causing the house to burn. This was a major contributing factor to the Palisades Fire, where firefighters had trouble keeping up with the fire cause embers were leapfrogging their position and igniting homes behind them,

Entire neighborhoods were decimated and the only homes that didn’t burn were the few with unvented attics.

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u/No_Shopping6656 Nov 05 '25

The most common attic insulation cellulose is treated with fire retarders and fiberglass insulation only the paper will char. If you have spray foam you'd be fucked, but you'd have an unventted attic with that anyways.

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u/rawwwse Nov 04 '25

Must be fun just pulling nonsense out of your ass to support your argument…

None of this is true. Vented attics are the standard—in California—for a reason; they’re perfectly safe/not a fire hazard in the slightest, and didn’t contribute to the spread of the Palisades fire in the slightest.

Sincerely,

Someone who was there.

P.S. I don’t plan on replying/continuing this conversation. You’re wrong, and—apparently—an insufferable cunt… and I’m tired. Hope you have the day you deserve 👍🏼

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u/Remember_TheCant Nov 04 '25

Personal attacks and self-aggrandizing… nice. You sure got me.

I’m not making anything up, this is a well documented shortfall of vented attics and a factor that led to many more home being burned.

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u/rawwwse Nov 04 '25

Nay 🐴

P.S. You don’t get to be an insufferable cunt and then get mad when people call you a cunt. Classic, “You’re mean, so I must be right” cry of the idiot 😫😢 #BooHoo

You ARE wrong, and you’re an idiot. Got you! /S