How effective are smoke alarms in waking children up?
November 30, 2007 by Grace Ibay
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
More than half of children who die during fires are asleep… and having a working smoke alarm at home is a fire safety measure for every family.
But this video would send chills through your spine.
http://www.showmomthemoney.com/FireAlarms.wmv <http://www.showmomthemoney.com/FireAlarms.wmv>
Watch as the children sleep through the smoke alarms! The experiment has the alarms blaring for 3 minutes and the kids don’t even seem to hear the shrilling sound.
However, a new smoke detector with a parent’s voice recorded into it, telling the child to wake up, has the youngest child waking in under 30 seconds!
Tags: fire safety, smoke alarm, children, sleep, fire, safety, home, parents
I was surprised to learn this notion has been kicking around for 25 years. t is clear that, Yes, if you have kids, you need a voice smoke alarm.