After an extremely close call we have renewed our smoke alarms and are now looking to buy fire extinguishers any advice on make, placements and numbers required please ?
My son was sitting on the end of his bed when he heard a bang and smelt a scorching smell. Turning round he saw an extension lead burst into flames. The flames leapt up with alarming speed. He managed to throw a towel and bedding over the fire and put it out immediately.
The horror dawned as he surveyed the damage to his bed and his baby’s cot. The carpet was also burnt.
But for the storms last week and the power going off the family had decamped to our daughters house, his baby would have been in her cot !
Needless to say we are all horrified by this event caused by a power surge in a self retracting extension lead. The lead had a surge protector, but it failed to do its job.
From this we have learnt that ;
Power surge protectors require checking avoid self retracting ones.
Smoke alarms need testing weekly( not monthly as we thought)
And replacing every ten years.
The fire service will give advice about smoke alarms and fitting them and in some cases will give you smoke alarms.
I hope that this may serve to prevent others having a similar or worse event. If DS had not been in the room the whole house could have gone up very quickly.
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