A family in Debert, Nova Scotia wants to spread awareness about the importance of having working smoke detectors in your household. This comes after the family had to make a narrow escape after their home caught fire. Heather Clare and her three children were forced to jump from their second-storey window as their upstairs smoke detector did not go off.
Clare explained that “all the smoke detectors in the house were getting old,… They were all 12 years old and it was only the one downstairs that went off. So it took a while for it to wake us up.” In most big fires, smoke detectors are often destroyed which makes it impossible to know if they were working.
Halifax Fire and Emergency’s division chief of fire prevention, Matt Covey said there are a lot of homes with expired, disabled, and ineffective fire alarms. Covey explained “you don’t ever want to be in that situation,… You want to be in the situation where you’re notified early.”
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