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Originally Posted by spk7951
Bogie, thank you for your response to this thread.
For my two cents I can not understand why anyone would not consider having working smoke detectors. I could search the internet and no doubt come up with countless stories where people lost their lives due to not having working smoke detectors. I spent 21yrs as a career firefighter and 15yrs as a volunteer firefighter. While I do not remember all the fires that I have responded to over that time I can tell you about the two fatalities that I have experienced firsthand. Neither home had working smoke detectors and both occurred during the late night hours.
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More likely those are the ones that we hear about. But I have seen reports on the tv of folks that were saved by the alarm going off.
Living alone would make the need for an alarm even more. Just don't see the line of thinking to not have them.