This weekend, there was a fatal fire in Montreal. The fact is that such events should be easily preventable in our 2010 society. We have so many ways to be connected to the things around us that something with so many warning signs as a fire should have raised alarms and let the inhabitants. It was said that the battery ran out but hardwired alarms exist. They should be relatively inexpensive to retrofit in existing houses, especially if you consider the amount of lives they would save. A push in this regard would go along way.
In the same vein, mandatory sprinklers in newer constructions should be studied. Again, there is no reason, with the level of technology we have that people still die because an alarm didn’t go off.
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