SILENT SECURITY
You’re watching TV with your loving spouse and the kids are upstairs in their rooms. It’s been a long hard day, you’ve had some late night snacks (a NO NO), the show isn’t exciting and you and your mate doze off.
Ah hah, thinks the thief, now is the time to strike.
The basement area playroom is quiet as the thief works his way toward the stairs. He got into the playroom from the furnace room. Nobody has checked that area for the last 6 weeks. Quiet is the most important thing, don’t wake the dozing adults.
The thief moves slowly through the basement area and starts up the stairs to the first floor. The TV is going, the noise level is high and the thief has been in the basement for 30 minutes.
Okay, it’s safe to go up to the first floor and overtake the sleeping parents. There isn’t even an element of surprise because the tired, overworked, over stuffed parents are sleeping like logs and don’t hear the very quiet thief coming to overtake them. Moving slowly and quietly, the thief accomplishes the mission. The parents are really quiet now. The thief can now concentrate on the second floor and the children.
The thief is moving faster now. The parents aren’t moving and now he races up to the second floor. Wait! What’s that noise, what are those flashing lights? The thief is now on the second floor and going out the window as the siren noise and flashing lights grow in intensity.
Too late, the crime has been committed, the entire family is dead and no one heard the smoke creeping through the home to steal everyone’s happiness and destroy this loving family.
If you don’t secure your loved ones with proper smoke detectors, this could be your story. This story is repeated 1000’s of times a year because careless adults don’t take responsibility for changing the batteries in their smoke detectors twice a year.
The children can accidently cause a fire, but it is the adults, being responsible, who can help save the children.
My wife takes a new calendar every January 1st and copies birthdays, anniversaries and other important dates from the previous year’s calendar. Two dates that are important are the start and stop of daylight savings time. Those are also the days we list to change the smoke detector batteries.
You schedule your family’s activities, so schedule their safely from the silent thief.
This security is silent, until the silent deadly smoke invades your home.
Waking up to an alarm is far better than not waking up.
BE SAFE
article by: Frederick C. Corrigan
about the author: Frederick is the webmaster for http://www.dartsandsupplies.com
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