Article: Woman led to safety in house fire.

Article: Dad saves sleeping family in house fire ...
Evening Mail;  January 14, 2000 ;     524 words ... ... station, said today that Mr Stafford had recently bought a smoke alarm, but had not fitted it. His wife had woken up and smelled ... relatives. Mr Hale added: "This fire shows the need to have a smoke alarm fitted and working in every house." Miss Rita Cree, of ...

Article: Dad saves sleeping family in house fire ...
Birmingham Evening Mail (England);  January 14, 2000 ;     539 words ... ... station, said today that Mr Stafford had recently bought a smoke alarm, but had not fitted it. His wife had woken up and smelled ... relatives. Mr Hale added: "This fire shows the need to have a smoke alarm fitted and working in every house." Miss Rita Cree, of ...

Article: Qld: House fire deaths down under smoke ...
AAP General News (Australia);  July 1, 2008 ;     299 words ... ... Australia) 07-01-2008 Qld: House fire deaths down under smoke alarm laws BRISBANE, July 1 AAP ... Minister Neil Roberts says. House fire deaths fell from 14 in the ... the introduction of mandatory smoke alarm laws on July 1, 2007, the ...

Article: Parrot imitates smoke alarm, saving man and child ...
AP Worldstream;  October 25, 2007 ;     426 words ... ... sounds helped save a man and his son from a house fire by mocking a smoke alarm, the bird's owner says. Shannon Conwell ... screaming his head off, Conwell said. The smoke alarm had activated, but it was the bird's call ...

Article: HOUSE FIRE PROMPTS SMOKE-ALARM ...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  January 8, 2001 ;     317 words ... ... Fire Department, citing a Saturday morning fire in which a smoke alarm saved six lives, is urging the public to check their smoke ... engulfed one wall and part of the floor of her basement when a smoke alarm sounded. Fire officials said Alaalatoa acted quickly to get ...

Article: Two escape house fire thanks to smoke ...
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  September 24, 2009 ;     419 words ... ... East Dean Road escaped their burning home without injury last week. North Shore Fire Department officials said a working smoke alarm on the first floor woke the two and enabled them to escape. Fire personnel at Station 5 in Bayside could smell smoke when ...

Article: Muncie, Ind.--Peanut the pet parrot helped save a man and his son ...
Current Science, a Weekly Reader publication;  January 18, 2008 ;     532 words ...MUNCIE, Ind. -- Peanut the pet parrot helped save a man and his son from a house fire by imitating the sound of a smoke alarm. The man, Shannon Conwell, and his son had fallen asleep while watching a late movie. They awoke ...