Originally Posted by
Peckish
I HAVE to have my bedroom door closed when I sleep. My grandfather was a fireman and we were taught that a closed door would give you a few precious minutes if you needed to escape a fire, whereas an open door would allow smoke in and you could perish before you ever awoke. Of course, we have smoke alarms now, but I still want an extra minute or two! .
I always heard it was safer, too, because you could feel the door & depending on how warm it was (or wasn't), you'd know how close the fire was. But I'm a big chicken & have to have the door open (plus the dog likes to sleep a bunch of different places in & out of the bedroom & I don't want to have to get up in the middle of the night & let him out of the bedroom).