Fire Safety

So a few of you know, Steve "won" free dinner at the Bluebird Restruant for 6 people. Well come to find out it was a sales pitch. We wern't going to go when we found out that we were going to have to sit there for 2 hours listening to someone sale us something. Well we decided to go anyway, because it was free dinner. It really wasn't to bad for the most part. The whole thing was on fire safety and they had a lot of good info. That's why I wanted to do a blog about a few things we learned about fire safety.
*Roll out of bed and stay on the ground. Heat at eye level in a fire could be 600 degrees, and 1000 degrees when you raise your arm in the air standing up, so always stay on the ground.
*A fire is reported approximately every 16 seconds.
*A flaming fire doubles in size every 30 seconds.
*75-100million of the smoke detectors horn contacts won't work.(the annoying buzzer that goes off every time you burn toast.)
*Speaking of which, most homes smoke detectors are Ionization smoke detectors and most likley won't go off in time to get a family out. The fire ions are to big to trigger the alarm. But the ions from the toast burning are small enough to trigger the alarm. Pretty scary!!
*The Manufacturers of the Ionization smoke detectors put in their warranty that you need to test your detectors once a week(pushing the button to see if the buzzer works), clean it with your vacuum brush once a month. They also say that the detector cannot prevent fires and that their product is not full proof, and can fail at any time.(which almost all things can fail at one point or another, but it would be nice to have a company that stands behind their product and can have a little more faith in a product.)
*Most homes are installed with the Ionization smoke detectors, which are the cheapest way to get by. But in commercial buildings the standards for smoke detectors are much higher and are not allowed by law to put in Ionization smoke detectors.
*Get a fire extinguisher. Preferrably one that is all metal, ABC, and rechargable.(the guy suggested having one in the kitchen, garage, basement, and parents room)
*Put smoke detectors in every room.
*Get carbon manoxide detectors andput them on every level of the house.
*Unplug appliances when leaving on vacation(tv's, computers, microwaves, etc.)
*Practice fire drills. Have your children participate so they know what to do. If your kids aren't old enough to get out them selves, practice anyway so you know what how to get your child out safely.
*The top 6 rooms fires start are, 1kitchen, 2furnace/laundry room, 3bedrooms, 4living rooms, 5garages, 6attic.

The company that did the presentation was Master Guard. I don't know how much their detectors are yet. I'm sure they have a web site you could visit. The guy is going to come to our apartment tonight and give us a little more info.(and I'm sure try to sell us all their products, great) but I'll post what I find out so if anyone is intrested you can get more info for your selves.