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Do a "test listen" so you - and everyone in your household - know what these alarms sound like -
and have a plan for what to do if there actually is a fire
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About 20 years ago, we were visiting my Dad & stepmother in Arkansas. I was up in the wee hours of the morning making myself a cup of tea by light of an outside light shining through the kitchen window. I turned on the wrong burner and set a pot to smoking, which set off the alarm that was approx. 7 feet away from their bed where they were both in deep sleep with the bedroom door open. Down the hall about 20 feet away and behind a closed door was my husband. No one in that house stirred, but apparently the thief or thieves cutting across the yard next door close to that window I was getting light from, stirred so swiftly, they left a pile of stolen merchandise from a small shopping center nearby. The alarm was loud, very loud.