This report can possibly save your child's life in a fire. Studies have shown that kids don't wake up to the sound of standard beeping smoke alarms.
There is a product on the market that has been proven to work better. It's a smoke alarm that talks to your kids, using your voice, called the kid-smart talking smoke alarm.
Nicole and Dave Zeiders recently talked about fire safety with their kids.
“We have talked to them about a meeting place,” the parents explained. “If the smoke alarm goes off, if they hear it, we've talked about doing drills.”
But they've never done one, until we contacted them and asked the one question many parents should consider. How fast will my kids wake up to a smoke alarm if there's a fire?
After 10-year-old Sophia and her seven-year-old brother Luke fell asleep, we set off the standard smoke alarm the house, to find out how fast they'd wake up.
Noticing it wasn't working five minutes after the smoke alarm starts going off, dad takes it over to the hallway, closer to the kid’s bedrooms.
But they continue to sleep.
At nine minutes in, dad brings the smoke alarm even closer to Luke's room. Nothing.
At nine minutes and 25 seconds, he moved it into Sophia's room, placing it next to her head. Nothing
11 minutes in, we're back in Luke's room. He rolls over.
About 15 minutes after the standard alarm started going off, Sophia finally wakes up and crawls out of her room.
The honor roll student is clearly upset, she failed this test.
“Do you know how long it took you to hear that?” questioned Nicole. “And it was right beside your head.”
“Well, I heard it,” Sophia answered.
“It was more than 13 minutes but you're suppose to hear that and get out of bed,” Nicole replied, leaving her daughter in tears.
But little brother Luke is still sleeping. In fact, he never wakes up, even when the alarm is next to his ear.
We stop the clock at 17 minutes.
“Literally my body was shaking,” admitted Nicole.
“You just assume they'll work,” echoed Dave.
“Yeah and I think it’s probably, if parents haven't done drills, they probably should do them.”
“When you train a kid to do fire drills, they have it in them, so when they hear that alarm, they're used to it,” commented Fire Commissioner Michael Harris.
One report found that only six percent of children between 6 and 15 years old woke up to the standard smoke alarm.
That's because, according to these studies, their brains aren't fully developed.
Some experts say talking smoke alarms are the solution. The kid-smart vocal smoke detector.
Steven Forman is the owner of Reddco Inc, which sells the alarm online.
“This is an alarm that should really be in everybody's home,” Forman stated.
Using the vocal smoke detector is really simple. All you have to do is press and hold the record button. It'll prompt you to record a message; ' get out of the house, there's a fire' (repeat) it's really just that simple.
“It can be added, it should be supplemental to the normal smoke alarm system, that's in most houses being built today,” Forman believes.
“It's great! It's a great addition to have,” Harris exclaimed. “You can have the basic alarms in the house and you can put those in the kid’s room.”
A few days later, we came back to the Zeiders household and did another drill with Luke and Sophia, only this time we used the vocal smoke detector.
Mom records her message and we set off the alarm in the hallway.
In less than ten seconds, Sophia wakes up. And in less than five minutes, Luke, who slept through the first alarm, is awake.
“I'm impressed with it, I'm really glad that we did it, because yeah, we would probably not have even looked at something like that,” Nicole told us. “Good job, and you crawled out like you were supposed to, you can go back to bed now.”
The Zeiders now have a plan.
They'll use the talking smoke alarm along with the standard one, and since she woke up in seconds during our second test, it'll be Sophia's job to wake Luke and get him out of the house if there's a fire.
It's recommended that you place these near the smoke alarms you already have inside your home and use them together.
You can only buy them online.
To learn how, click on Find It.
There is a product on the market that has been proven to work better. It's a smoke alarm that talks to your kids, using your voice, called the kid-smart talking smoke alarm.
Nicole and Dave Zeiders recently talked about fire safety with their kids.
“We have talked to them about a meeting place,” the parents explained. “If the smoke alarm goes off, if they hear it, we've talked about doing drills.”
But they've never done one, until we contacted them and asked the one question many parents should consider. How fast will my kids wake up to a smoke alarm if there's a fire?
After 10-year-old Sophia and her seven-year-old brother Luke fell asleep, we set off the standard smoke alarm the house, to find out how fast they'd wake up.
Noticing it wasn't working five minutes after the smoke alarm starts going off, dad takes it over to the hallway, closer to the kid’s bedrooms.
But they continue to sleep.
At nine minutes in, dad brings the smoke alarm even closer to Luke's room. Nothing.
At nine minutes and 25 seconds, he moved it into Sophia's room, placing it next to her head. Nothing
11 minutes in, we're back in Luke's room. He rolls over.
About 15 minutes after the standard alarm started going off, Sophia finally wakes up and crawls out of her room.
The honor roll student is clearly upset, she failed this test.
“Do you know how long it took you to hear that?” questioned Nicole. “And it was right beside your head.”
“Well, I heard it,” Sophia answered.
“It was more than 13 minutes but you're suppose to hear that and get out of bed,” Nicole replied, leaving her daughter in tears.
But little brother Luke is still sleeping. In fact, he never wakes up, even when the alarm is next to his ear.
We stop the clock at 17 minutes.
“Literally my body was shaking,” admitted Nicole.
“You just assume they'll work,” echoed Dave.
“Yeah and I think it’s probably, if parents haven't done drills, they probably should do them.”
“When you train a kid to do fire drills, they have it in them, so when they hear that alarm, they're used to it,” commented Fire Commissioner Michael Harris.
One report found that only six percent of children between 6 and 15 years old woke up to the standard smoke alarm.
That's because, according to these studies, their brains aren't fully developed.
Some experts say talking smoke alarms are the solution. The kid-smart vocal smoke detector.
Steven Forman is the owner of Reddco Inc, which sells the alarm online.
“This is an alarm that should really be in everybody's home,” Forman stated.
Using the vocal smoke detector is really simple. All you have to do is press and hold the record button. It'll prompt you to record a message; ' get out of the house, there's a fire' (repeat) it's really just that simple.
“It can be added, it should be supplemental to the normal smoke alarm system, that's in most houses being built today,” Forman believes.
“It's great! It's a great addition to have,” Harris exclaimed. “You can have the basic alarms in the house and you can put those in the kid’s room.”
A few days later, we came back to the Zeiders household and did another drill with Luke and Sophia, only this time we used the vocal smoke detector.
Mom records her message and we set off the alarm in the hallway.
In less than ten seconds, Sophia wakes up. And in less than five minutes, Luke, who slept through the first alarm, is awake.
“I'm impressed with it, I'm really glad that we did it, because yeah, we would probably not have even looked at something like that,” Nicole told us. “Good job, and you crawled out like you were supposed to, you can go back to bed now.”
The Zeiders now have a plan.
They'll use the talking smoke alarm along with the standard one, and since she woke up in seconds during our second test, it'll be Sophia's job to wake Luke and get him out of the house if there's a fire.
It's recommended that you place these near the smoke alarms you already have inside your home and use them together.
You can only buy them online.
To learn how, click on Find It.