On Mon, 19 Mar 2018 10:50:39 +0000, Brian Gaff wrote:

Its clearly daft as obviously, a fire in the electricity cupboard may
well cut the supply.

The mains interlinked ones usually have a backup battery. Our Firex ones
do.

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