[News] *people with young children please read this*

[pornomagboy]

on watchdog to night they done a bit on smoke alarms not waking up small children

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/49648867


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[BNthree]

Not much wakes my kids up to be honest.

 

[portlock seagull]

"We are not aware of conclusive evidence from fire statistics to show that the current frequency of sound emitted by the majority of smoke alarms is ineffective," the BSI said

Bit scaremongering therefore isn’t it?

 

[beorhthelm]

The manufacturers should make it clear that the alarm isn't guaranteed to wake up everyone in the house, said Jo Leigh, the mother of two of the children who slept through the alarm during Watchdog's test.

does Jo plan to just bolt outside on hearing the alarm and hope the kids would be there?

 

[Wrong-Direction]

5 grand to trim an apple tree!! Ffs that's disgusting the *****!

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[studio150]

No doubt the parents would prefer to save the expensive TV rather than their children.

What type of parent on hearing a smoke alarm wouldn't look to assist their children as their first action, or does the fire safety plan just say you're on your own.

 

[Driver8]

The small children are unlikely to be managing the evacuation.

 

[B-right-on]

Not much wakes my kids up to be honest.

This. So if the fire alarm goes off, as a parent your natural reaction is to run into one of the few adjacent bedrooms where your kids sleep and make sure they get out. Ridiculous.

Also should have a warning that hearing impaired (not allowed to call them deaf) cannot hear the alarm, nor can anyone in the next street or that's in an alcoholic stupor. How far do they go?

 

[mothy]

I've got a whole house system - both my neighbours have the same. I wake them up & they wake me up with theirs - so I'm covered (phew)

 

[Barham's tash]

"We are not aware of conclusive evidence from fire statistics to show that the current frequency of sound emitted by the majority of smoke alarms is ineffective," the BSI said

Bit scaremongering therefore isn’t it?

The last time Watchdog claimed something was a 'potential death trap' it was pop tarts from memory. How times have changed.

 

[maffew]

The last time Watchdog claimed something was a 'potential death trap' it was pop tarts from memory. How times have changed.

Blue smarties?

 

[Knocky's Nose]

Blue smarties?

I demand Blue Smartie Pop Tarts and the reinstatement of Sunny D.

That way your kids will never go to sleep and won't even need to hear a smoke alarm.

Thinking outside the box, right there.

 

[Iggle Piggle]

Why does back up battery on a smoke alarm go in the middle of the night? Every. Single. Time

 

[el punal]

The last time Watchdog claimed something was a 'potential death trap' it was pop tarts from memory. How times have changed.

I don’t know why but when I hear the description ‘pop tarts’ I just think of a mobile brothel.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

This. So if the fire alarm goes off, as a parent your natural reaction is to run into one of the few adjacent bedrooms where your kids sleep and make sure they get out. Ridiculous.

Also should have a warning that hearing impaired (not allowed to call them deaf) cannot hear the alarm, nor can anyone in the next street or that's in an alcoholic stupor. How far do they go?

Really? Not allowed to call them deaf? Where did you read that?
There are varying degrees of hearing loss from profoundly deaf to hard of hearing.

My husband is hard of hearing, due to genetics but has a council provided vibrating pad in his pillow to wake him up.

 

[zefarelly]

I'm looking forward to the new Darwin awards.

 

[Justice]

Fit interlinked Aico smoke//heat detectors they will definitely wake you up.

 

[schmunk]

My husband... ...has a... ...vibrating pad in his pillow to "wake him up".

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I'd be far more worried about the carbon monoxide detectors featured on last night's news that just don't work.

 

[schmunk]

I'd be far more worried about the carbon monoxide detectors featured on last night's news that just don't work.

Please could you elaborate?