Smoke detectors can save your life and those of your family. Most fatal home fires occur at night, while people sleep.
Fire produces toxic gases and smoke that actually numb the senses.
If you're asleep, or become disoriented by toxic gases, you may not even realize that there is a fire. You can't rely on your own senses to detect a fire. Almost every day, news reports across the country tell of cases where smoke detectors have saved lives. In several instances, the battery-operated detectors were not mounted, but still alerted families to fire. Fire officials continually cite smoke detectors as life savers in home fires.