Increase in fire response times could be “difference between life and death”

[Nightstaffer]

I stand corrected LOL

[bill.advanced]

Abbreviation for gutted, the house was gutted in the fire...... a gut.

[camusfearna]

that was definitely true 20 years ago
Since then hundreds of thousands of smoke alarms have been fitted
Lots of other initiatives too have had a bearing

but one nugget from those halcyon days

If you give an elderly person, an immobile person or a bedridden person two smoke alarms
Unless you back it up with a promise to get to their home quickly when the alarm sounds
All that you have achieved is to provide them with a device that wakes them up to let them know that they are about to die in a fire .

A promise....I suppose you could give them one with a died battery in, that way they feel reassured, but does not wake them up?
Or you could fit sprinklers.
There always has to be a financial trade off.