On Jan 15, 12:22*am, "Ed Pawlowski" wrote:
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"Evan" wrote



I know of no smoke detectors in garage ceilings... *Perhaps the attic
in
question was also lacking one as well...

It is quite easy to smell a fire as little wisps of smoke will be
drawn into
the bedroom from the attic by air leaks and the flow through windows
before it will get into the hallway where the smoke detectors are
located...

For $10, put one in each of the bedrooms. *You are proposing a $10,000
solution to a $50 problem.



I even heard of a recent incident where a woman in a nearby community
attempted to kill herself and successfully killed her 8-year-old son
with
carbon monoxide fumes from lighting up a Hibachi grill inside a
bedroom,
neither the smoke detector nor the required CO detector were activated
in the home... *So don't assume that a smoke or CO detector will be
able
to alert you to ALL dangers or fires in your home which could kill
you...

You are correct, a CO detector will not alert me to a mentally ill parent..
She also blocked an exit. *This was an intentional deed, not accidental CO
leaking. *I image she deactivated any alarms beforehand. *Sprinklers would
not have helped her in any case. *She was intent on murder/suicide and was
50% successful.

Not a $50 problem... You can't use smoke detectors or CO monitors in
a
garage, but I am sure you knew that... Not many single family homes
have
any rate-of-rise heat detectors installed in them, which is what you
would
want to have in a garage...

Not in rental property which must have those detectors tested twice
annually...

And, no, according to the fire chief who was interviews at a press
conference
about the incident no alarms were disabled...

As to your assumption that sprinklers would not have been any help, I
wouldn't
jump to that conclusion, those grills put out a lot of heat, confining
that heat
inside one room might have gotten hot enough at the ceiling to pop a
sprinkler
head, don't know either way because no one has conducted an
experiment
and measured how hot it got in the room...

Your assertion that the mother was mentally ill is the first I have
heard about
that aspect of the case, do you have a source for that information, or
are you
just adding your personal opinion/moral judgment to your
argumentation?

~~ Evan