Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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Correct, but would you even hear the thing going off in the garage?
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I realize smoke detectors in the garage are not in the code. But, why haven't we been alert enough to add them on our own, especially with golf carts (gas or electric)?
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How about alarms,the paper did not say a thing about the alarm system
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Thankfully the inhabitants escaped unharmed. I imagine something woke them.
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Regarding the fire?
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According to the paper interview it stated the single resident (male) felt heat on his cheek and woke up. His hair and face area was singed. Lucky he woke up when he did.
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Wasn't there a working smoke detector in the house? The man said he awoke due to feeling the heat from the flames.
I thought it was building code to have hard wired smoke detectors that include battery backup. |
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Oh that is awful. I misunderstood.
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For those of us who are deaf or very hard of hearing the smoke alarms don't work well if we are sleeping. Or he was in a very deep sleep. People still die in their sleep even with working smoke detectors.
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We were recently invited to a fire alarm sales show. Being a 42year ex firemen I was interested so we went. I knew the alarms we had in our homes were not the best and were slow on the response. Up north I had an updated system installed and was happy with it. So we went to the show and bought into it. the garage ,attic and kitchen have heat detectors, all other rooms have smoke detectors. They're all wireless and automatically communicate with each other. The ones that came with the house are still in place. Well here's what happened. We had a party in the house just before Christmas. I was in the kitchen cleaning up, my wife was in the bedroom putting some stuff away. My daughter and son in law were in the living room. All of a sudden the NEW smoke alarms go off, I look up from the kitchen sink and say holly s--t there's a fire in the living room. Mind you my daughter and son in la were in that room and didn't notice it. The alarms that came with the house didn't activated until after we had started to extinguish the fire. The new alarms were not cheap but after seeing first hand how well they worked I don't care how much they were.
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We had a neighbor here in Tampa that had a bad fire that began in the garage due to a car battery charger they plugged in.
Thank goodness everyone got out.
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I've been saying that for a long time. It seems as though most of the fires in TV start in the garage. The house smoke alarms are all hard wired, and if one goes off, they all go off. Would it be expensive and difficult to connect a hard wired smoke alarm in the garage to the other alarms?
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Wouldn't the car exhaust set off the alarm all the time? |
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That makes sense. Better to have the fire department tell you what is dangerous.
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ine haven't gone off in the garage yet from exhaust, I now also have a heat detector out there. Besides your not supposed to start the car with the door closed, so by the time you start the car and get outside the air would be cleared.
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Patchogue, NY; Village of Bonita Sept.09 |
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