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Originally posted by pwd72s
I still think a monitored system has it's plusses. Smoke alarms, for example. We have battery powered, of course...but we also have a detector wired into our alarm system. If we're not home, and a fire breaks out, the alarm company will hopefully call the local F.D.
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Unless you are at home, standing on the back deck havin a smoke while (important part) talking on the phone and you hear someones alarm go off and think to your self "how irritating is that" as you turn and look into your back door and a house full of smoke caused by the wife unit making blackened something in a pan and thinking olive oil would be good to use (NOT) so you put the phone down (important part) and run inside and after figuring out the house is not on fire you open all the windows and turn on the ceiling fans to clear out the smoke and while instructing the wife on the proper oils to use while blackening things in a pan you start seeing trails of "disco" lights in the smoke and think to yourself you've only had 2 or 3 margaritas so what the F is that as you wander to the front of the house and notice the Fire Trucks parked on your lawn and you may be lucky enough to open the door 2 seconds before the guys whose dinners you just interrupted bash it in with the axes they are charging up the front steps with in rabid anticipation of a little action and you'll feel pretty crappy telling them the truth and then pretty embarrassed when the Chief leans into his radio and says "it's just cooking" so the next day you'll stop by the firehouse with a couple of cases of beers to make amends.
Oh yeah, when your alarm goes off in addition to putting the phone down you also need to HANG IT UP or else the monitoring company can't call you to verify everything is OK and they WILL notify the fire dept.
Ask me how I know.