Fire Drill

This week I saw the photo of a fellow IBMer’s house that burned down. Then we saw a segment on the news about home fire drills. With a hidden camera they showed kids sleeping through blaring smoke detector alarms.
So we decided to give it a try. Dark house, kids asleep…press the test button and half a dozen smoke detectors all start wailing.
After about a minute one door opens with a concerned, “Mom?” The other door never opened.
This morning both say they didn’t know what the alarm was. So we’ve gone back over fire safety basics and will do a few more fire drills to make sure they do know the sound and they do get up out of bed.