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How ironic, yet worrying at the same time. Firefighters have ceased giving out free smoke alarms in Yorkshire after one nearly serverley burnt down a house!
Shocked Sharon Gray returned home to find the Fire Angel alarm had ignited. Her house in Bilton Grange, Yorks, was saved only when daughter Victoria, 16, doused the flames.
Sharon, 42, said: "But for her, I dread to think what would have happened."
Humberside Fire And Rescue Service immediately stopped handing out Fire Angel alarms until a probe into the cause of the incident is carried out.
A spokesman said: "This was extremely rare, but we'll err on the side of caution."
Alarm suppliers Fire Angel said: "We are working closely with the Fire and Rescue Service."
How disturbing is that? Clearly an irregular thing to happen... although is it? Whose to say it could not be your very own smoke alarm to burst into flames next? There has been numerous forceful advertising campaigns over the years to encourage the presence of smoke alarms in your home... yet I’m afraid in my house there is only one up on the wall which is broken! Whether I am putting my own life at risk and being careless I do not know... have you ever heard of or witnessed an experience were a smoke detector has saved a life? The adverts are convincing and I feel somewhat stupid for possibly endangering my own life, yet that just goes to show that we are not all sucked in by convincing adverts as one would have first thought. Smoking for example, numerous campaigns and even truthful yet vile images on the packets of cigarettes... unfortunately they don’t seem to make a difference! Luckily no one was hurt in this example but it is undoubtedly scary that the thing which is supposedly mean to “save your life” may even end yours sooner!
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