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Silent Security
By Frederick Corrigan
You’re watching TV with your loving spouse and the kids are upstairs in their rooms. It’s been a long hard day, you’ve had some late night snacks (a NO NO), the show isn’t exciting and you and your mate doze off. Ah hah, thinks the thief, now is the time to strike. The basement area playroom is quiet as the thief works his way toward the stairs. He got into the playroom from the furnace room. Nobody has checked that area for the last 6 weeks. Quiet is the most important thing, don’t wake the dozing adults. The thief moves slowly through the basement area and starts up the stairs to the first floor. The TV is going, the noise level is high and the thief has been in the basement for 30 minutes. Okay, it’s safe to go up to the first floor and overtake the sleeping parents. There isn’t even an element of surprise because the tired, overworked, over stuffed parents are sleeping like logs and don’t hear the very quiet thief coming to overtake them. Moving slowly and quietly, the thief accomplishes the mission. The parents are really quiet now. The thief can now concentrate on the second floor and the children. The thief is moving faster now. The parents aren’t moving and now he races up to the second floor. Wait! What’s that noise, what are those flashing lights? The thief is now on the second floor and going out the window as the siren noise and flashing lights grow in intensity. Too late, the crime has been committed, the entire family is dead and no one heard the smoke creeping through the home to steal everyone’s happiness and destroy this loving family. If you don’t secure your loved ones with proper smoke detectors, this could be your story. This story is repeated 1000’s of times a year because careless adults don’t take responsibility for changing the batteries in their smoke detectors twice a year. The children can accidently cause a fire, but it is the adults, being responsible, who can help save the children. My wife takes a new calendar every January 1st and copies birthdays, anniversaries and other important dates from the previous year’s calendar. Two dates that are important are the start and stop of daylight savings time. Those are also the days we list to change the smoke detector batteries. You schedule your family’s activities, so schedule their safely from the silent thief. This security is silent, until the silent deadly smoke invades your home. Waking up to an alarm is far better than not waking up.
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Alarm Clock---Wake-up
Spring ahead in the Spring
Fall Back in the Fall
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Excellent point. Fire prevention is so important and unless we have a strategy in place to remind us, its so easy to forget about those smoke alarm batteries.
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Thanks for the visit and your support, June.
Best wishes.
Frederick
Super post Frederick! Spent 30 years in the security industry and fire scares me the most.. Saw a lot of damage in those years that could of been prevented... Monitoring a fire system is the most important investment for a household or business (small or corporate)...
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It never ceases to amaze me how people can remove the batteries from smoke detectors and still go to bed at night. These parents should face jail time for child endangerment.
Thanks for the support, Bruce.
Best to you.
Frederick
Good one Frederick! I have 3 of them in my house.
Regards,
Jim
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Glad you enjoyed, Jim.
Thank you for the visit.
Best wishes.
Frederick
Good reminder, I think it's time at my house.
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Thanks for the visit, Christina.
Try the calendar method, it works.
Best wishes.
Frederick
Great stuff, Frederick,
As well as checking the batteries in your smoke detectors don't forget to also check that your flues are clear.
Often it is the build up of carbon monoxide caused by blocked flues that put you to sleep before the fire actually shows any flames.
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Thanks for reminding me that I should have included the batteries in the carbon monoxide detectors also.
Great comments, Arthur.
Best wishes.
Frederick
Very well-written, great job! Fires are more dangerous than burglars.
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Thanks for the visit and the comments, Brad. Your right,fires go where burglars wouldn't even bother to tread. Best to you. Frederick
Very good Intel Frederick. It`s so sad to learn of people who have died in fires when if they`d just replaced their alarm batteries they might have been saved.
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Your kind comments are so true, Geoff.
Thanks for the support.
Best wishes.
Frederick
Great Job Frederick.
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Thanks for your visit and your support, Reg.
Best to you.
Frederick
A timely Intel as usual complete with great pictures.
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Thanks for the visit and the support, Franklyn.
I thought that the pictures were very timely.
Best to you.
Frederick
A very informative intel!! Thanks for sharing.
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Thank you for your support and I'm glad that I could be of assistence to you.
Best to you.
Frederick
A sad but posible scenario. Good post.
CONTRIBUTOR'S REPLY
Thank you for visiting and for your support.
Best wishes.
Frederick
Love the slant on this story - so creative. The message is taken, Frederick.
CONTRIBUTOR'S REPLY
Thank you for visiting and for your kind comments, Carol. We just had 5 people, two were children, lose their lives on a sunny Saturday afternoon from this same senerio. Very sad. Very irresponsible. Best to you. Frederick
HI Frederick, interesting twist in the tail of that one, very well told and so true, good advice. Thanks Ted.
CONTRIBUTOR'S REPLY
Thanks for stopping by and for your kind comments, Ted.
Best to you.
Frederick
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