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Originally Posted by I'm Popeye!
What's next, shine shoes?
The fire department's job is to turn fires off, I always thought!
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(groan)
As Mom used to tell us, "you'd complain if you were hung with a new rope".
Firefighters installing new smoke detectors or changing batteries in current ones may avoid serious injury to the owner if he/she falls off a ladder and breaks a bunch of bones in the process.
Even more importantly, it may avert a death or deaths if the smoke alarms weren't working, the house catches fire, and the occupants weren't awakened in time to get out.