Alarm Alarm

Went with Tiffany and the grandkids to see Santa at the City of Edmond's Safety Village (our town has incredible things to do). While standing in line to build birdhouses, courtesy of Lowe's, the Firemen who were putting on this event passed around a sign up sheet if you want them to come out and check your smoke alarms. They will check for placement, age (they do have expiration dates), and batteries. It was  interesting to see that the people who bought our old house had signed up for the inspection.

This got me thinking, where are our alarms? Asked Bill when I got home and he remembered alarms being there on our inspection, sure enough on our report smoke alarms tested and working. He took the smoke alarms with him when he moved out! Luckily' we have boxes of alarms in our storage since renters seem to move out with them all the time also. We find it funny, they remove the smoke alarms and their toilet paper.

We now have an alarm in the apartment. Still can't believe we hadn't noticed they had been removed since this is something we immediately check when we have rent houses open.


If your alarms are not hardwired please check the expiration date on your alarm they are such an inexpensive safety system  for your family.