24. Check the smoke detectors regularly.
Fires in homes with no smoke detectors (41 percent) or no functioning smoke alarms resulted in three out of every five home fire deaths (16 percent ). You should check fire alarms should take at least once a year. Since most people have trouble remembering this, some people equate it with a holiday (for example, on New Year's Eve, you should check the smoke detector). This next story, shared by Reddit user johnboy11a, could remind you to check your smoke detectors every year.
"When I first started working as a firefighter, they gave us the mission to fire out a house downstairs. At the moment, Mom and her two young children were not at home. When we arrived, the entire downstairs was occupied. We discovered a LOT of junk blocking access to an escape door near the bottom of the steps until we got a firm knock on the fire. We found the deceased father by that entrance, surrounded by junk, unable to open it. Besides, there were no smoke detectors in the building.
