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Do you have smoke alarms fitted in your home?

An entire family has been wiped out here, in the early hours of this morning, when their house caught fire. All of them are dead. The cause of the fire is not yet known but all the neighbours are saying that the house did not have any smoke alarms fitted. If you don't have smoke alarms fitted in your home PLEASE get them TODAY and fit them immediately. Please do this for your family's safety. I wanted to put the names of the family here so that they weren't just a news item. There were real people, a lovely family, and if they had had working smoke alarms, they just might have survived this terrible tragedy. Baby James (just a few months old), Clodagh (19 months), Belina (5), Sean (7), Caroline (13), together with their parents Lorraine and Arthur. If you know anyone who doesn't have smoke alarms fitted in their home, please consider buying them some as an early Christmas present.

Public Comments

  1. i do have them,and I hope everyone listens to what you are saying.x
  2. I agree totally with you. No house should be without them.
  3. Yes, we have had two fitted for about 5 years now, they are testted weekly !
  4. Yeah, we've got them everywhere. They're kind of annoying, especially the ones in the kitchen. I cant even make a freakin grilled cheese sandwich without one going off.
  5. yes!!!!
  6. Yes 3 and I do check them about once a month,,,I am very safety conscious
  7. Excellent advice, and fit them where they will not go off because of heat from your cooker etc., check them regularly and make sure the battery's work.
  8. We have 2, the one downstairs is known in our family as the dinner bell.
  9. no
  10. I hate to say that our house has no smoke alarms.
  11. yes I have 2 one downstairs one upstairs and they are checked every week
  12. got them
  13. I've been asking my partner to fit them since we moved house last year. Think I'll take matters into my own hands now!
  14. yes, one upstairs and one down stairs and we test them weekly. Also have a carbon monoxide detector to
  15. yes, We have 2 , and once a year we do a full emergency evacuation with the kids...
  16. may i also point out that some people do have them but remove the batteries rendering them useless, please replace your batteries before disaster strikes
  17. I have two, three if you count the wife coughing when I make toast.
  18. Yes i have 2 in my home. One downstairs and one upstairs. I also have a Carbon Monoxide detector. All of my safety alarms are checked every 2 weeks, to make sure they are still working. To be honest there is NO excuse not to have at least one, every fire station in the Country will come round to your home and fit them for FREE. With 2 young children i am not willing to take any risks with there lives.
  19. Well said. We have electric smoke alarms in our house which are wired up to the mains, and have a battery backup in case the electric goes. They go off every now and then when we are cooking (one of them is in the kitchen) which can be a pain, but still I wouldn't be without them. You hear of too many tragedies like this awful one sadly. Smoke alarms really do save lives and are a necessity in any house or building. Hopefully this will encourage more people to get them fitted.
  20. I have them. If there is one thing that you could have done, to do you bit for this poor family,you have just done it darling.My heart bleeds for you and the people around you. Well done and i hope every reader takes notice.
  21. have two test them every week keep spare batteries for them
  22. Fire is one of my biggest fears. A lot of people have smoke detectors, but they take the batteries out, or don't keep fresh batteries in them.....might as well not have them at all!
  23. I have smoke alarms and carbon monoxide alarms fitted. R.I.P to each of them, 7 more stars up in the sky tonight x. x .x .x .x .x .x And a star for you Dream On.you deserve it x
  24. Yes I certainly do. 1 upstairs and 1 downstairs, I also have 1 fitted in my touring caravan and a fire extinguisher too, and a fire blanket, you can never be too careful I say. Also may I say my dogs are both brill as if they thought I had'nt heard it !! they come and bark to let me know it is blaring. So hopefully our house should be safe.My alarms were fitted by the fire brigade, so have a life span of a 10 year battery and they will refit another when the time comes, and my windows, and doors checked as a programme for the elderly.
  25. I have them, and carbon monoxide alarm too.
  26. I do have smoke alarms and always check them.Even when we go on holiday I check the that their are smoke alarms and that they work.People think I'm OTT but,tragedies like this show you can't be careful enough. And Christmas time,with all the lights etc,people need to be extra vigilant.Thank you for your concern.You are very caring. My heart goes out to the family.x
  27. yes...always assumed that everyone else did...sad
  28. Tragic!!! very sad... Yes, i have smoke alarms, the council fitted them to the mains after a fire I had in my home......no one was hurt thankfully.............
  29. We have, we had our house rewired and got electric ones fitted while he was doing it