Fire Safety

A long standing tradition at the Casa de Carle is that before any type of safety upgrade we have to blast this through the house and try our best at imitating Artie.

Jen and I have both had fellow teachers whose houses have burnt down, so although these things don't stop fires they help save lives.  We take fires very seriously.  

Today's Improvement Number 1: Smoke Alarms and Carbon Monoxide Detectors (all rolled into one)

Smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors are supposed to only be used for seven years before replacing.  As we were testing ours the following happened: Some fell apart, some didn't make a sound, and some didn't have batteries (those didn't make a sound either).  

No Batteries

Making sure I got everything down.

Smoke alarms are actually pretty easy to mount.  All you need is a screwdriver to screw in the mounting plate and the rest is simply sliding the front of the alarm on by matching up groves.

Screwing with mounting plate.

Ta-DA!

What is cool about the new alarms is they talk or rather screech what is wrong.  For example if there is smoke you hear "Fire! Fire!" after a series of beeps and if we are in peril because of carbon monoxide it screams "Warning! Carbon Monoxide!"  If you are sleeping  you won't have to decide which beeping means what.  It talks to you.

Today's Improvement Number 2: Fire Extinguishers

We had the right idea about getting a fire extinguisher, but this one doesn't belong under the sink like we originally had planned.  This one is more for electrical fires so actually this one will be going down to the basement where our fuse box is.

The Imposter Fire Extinguisher

Today's Improvement Number 3: Fire Ladder

We sleep upstairs and if there is a fire down stairs we would be in trouble so we tested out this fire ladder and it worked just fine.

Step 1:  Don't fall out window throwing ladder.

Step 2: Make sure ladder is secured at the top.

Step 3: Ask yourself, "Do you really want to do this?"

Step 4:  You think, "Here goes nothing..."

Step 5:  At this point you are past the point of no return.

Step 6: You are now in the clear because falling from this height no longer means for sure death, only broken bones perhaps...

I'll leave you with this last song.