A family who narrowly escaped a fire in their house in Debert, N.S., wants others to know how important it is for homes to have working smoke detectors.
Heather Clare and her three children were forced to jump from their second-storey window to get to safety when the hard-wired smoke detector upstairs didn’t warn them of a fire downstairs.
“All the smoke detectors in the house were getting older,” Clare said. “They were all 12 years old and it was only the one downstairs that went off. So it took a while for it to wake us up.”
According to data shared with CBC News
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