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My apartment's bath fan caught on fire

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helius:

--- Quote from: pigrew on June 10, 2020, 08:29:32 pm ---Maintenance had removed the extinguisher from our unit a few months ago (saying that too many kids used them, making messes, and that they are no longer required by the fire code)
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If you do not expect that someone would shed a tear over your painful death, it is not wise to entrust your life to them.
This is a lesson that people are remarkably resistant to learning: on the topic of recent events, a persistent narrative spread that protecting yourself from COVID-19 makes you an "asshole", and the only permitted action is to protect others.
This while venturing out in any city today, you see people on the street without masks, or with masks hanging down around their chins. So enamored are they of the grand idea, Un pour tous et tous pour un, so must embrace a willful ignorance of reality.

bill_c:
Make sure you have smoke detectors properly installed and that the batteries are changed as needed.  You can't smell smoke while you sleep. Without  a functioning smoke detector, you will not wake up as the place fills with smoke. Without  a functioning smoke detector, you will not wake up as the place fills with smoke. Yes, it is worth repeating as many times as needed.

I mean everyone, every house, not just pigrew.

james_s:

--- Quote from: bill_c on June 11, 2020, 04:33:10 am ---Make sure you have smoke detectors properly installed and that the batteries are changed as needed.  You can't smell smoke while you sleep. Without  a functioning smoke detector, you will not wake up as the place fills with smoke. Without  a functioning smoke detector, you will not wake up as the place fills with smoke. Yes, it is worth repeating as many times as needed.

I mean everyone, every house, not just pigrew.

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Indeed, I actually knew a guy who died when he left something on the stove and fell asleep, set his apartment on fire and resulted in his death and everyone who lived in the building being displaced. He had a vaping habit and had disabled the smoke detector in his apartment, had he not done that he'd still be alive. He wasn't very old either, 22 I think, one of those sorts who was his own worst enemy.

I have a smoke detector in nearly every room of my house.

Someone:

--- Quote from: bill_c on June 11, 2020, 04:33:10 am ---Make sure you have smoke detectors properly installed and that the batteries are changed as needed.  You can't smell smoke while you sleep. Without  a functioning smoke detector, you will not wake up as the place fills with smoke. Without  a functioning smoke detector, you will not wake up as the place fills with smoke. Yes, it is worth repeating as many times as needed.

I mean everyone, every house, not just pigrew.
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Thankfully they are legally required in many residence types now.

Lord of nothing:
Well it look like a typical US Cardboard House.  :-DD
With a Brickwall and Concrete Ceiling nothing special would happen:


But why make it rock solid when the Russian Style look good...  :-DD

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