Re: Don't heistate with fire protection

[Sean <alarmdude01@xxxxxxxxx>]

JoeRaisin wrote:
> About four years ago my boys became close friends with a kid they met at
> their tea kwon do school.  They all enjoyed snowboarding (winter) and
> skateboarding (summer).  he even became a black belt at the same time as
> my younger boy (15yo).
>
> We have a very large driveway and he has some nice hills behind his
> house so it quickley became the norm for them to spend most of the
> summer at our house and most of the winter at his.
>
> His parents are very nice folks and we visited their house along with
> our kids many time and vice-versa.
>
> I noticed they had no fire protection in their very old house.  I had
> commented to Doug many times that I could easily throw together a simple
> fire system from stuff I had salvaged during takeovers and tear downs
> but we would have to buy a few wireless smokes (four would have done it).
>
> We both agreed it would be a good idea and I even started throwing some
> stuf in a box but I never got around to doing it.  I had everything
> together and could have easily gotten a few smokes from our service
> department at reduced cost - but agan, I never could seem to find the time.
>
> Saturday morning at around 4 am the house burned to the ground and my 18
> year old son was the only one who didn't get out.
>
> The other two boys in the home at the time said that when they woke up
> they couldn't get through the house to the room my son had gone to sleep
> in.  It wouldn't have mattered as the investigator (who at this time is
> leaning towards electrical in the kitchen ceiling) believes (based on
> the descriptions from the those two) that since my son had his bedroom
> door open he was most likely already gone (from the smoke) by the time
> the other two woke up at the other end of the house.
>
> Had I not screwed around and done what I knew needed doing they would
> have at least had a chance of waking up before it was too late and my
> son would still be teaching tae kwon do and going to school.
>
> I wouldn't be sitting here waiting until Monday so they can take his
> body down state to be identified (he was the only other one who could
> have been in the house).  We don't know when we will be getting him back.
>
> If you have any family or friends who are not adequately or even
> rudimentarily protected don't wait.  Do it today.
>
> Don't let a loved one die because you procrastinate.  Everyone is aying
> it was an accident and that these things happen.  I know better.  He is
> dead because I saw something that needed to be done and I simply didn't
> do it.  It is a father's duty to protect his children.
Sorry Joe, my sympathies to you. It is never easy to lose a someone
especially your child.