1
00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:02,800
Speaker 1: Our friendly local firefighter, Steve Oxner.

2
00:00:02,560 --> 00:00:04,120
Speaker 2: Morning morning, how are you.

3
00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:07,040
Speaker 1: You're good? You are adjusted to the daylight saving yet no,

4
00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:11,760
Speaker 1: it messes with you all yesterday. Of course you can't

5
00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:12,959
Speaker 1: look at the clock on the walk because they haven't

6
00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:15,200
Speaker 1: changed that yet, or in the car. I'm not even

7
00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:17,040
Speaker 1: going to try. I'm just going to leave it six

8
00:00:17,079 --> 00:00:19,639
Speaker 1: months and it'll right itself when we're back again. But

9
00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:22,560
Speaker 1: glancing at my phone's thinking, shoot, it's twelve o'clock already.

10
00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:24,640
Speaker 1: Shoot it's two o'clocker. Really, shoot, I should be in

11
00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:25,239
Speaker 1: bed by now.

12
00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:28,520
Speaker 2: Yeah. Time gets your own and it's sure so, of.

13
00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:31,000
Speaker 1: Course daylight saving. It's also a great reminder to gun

14
00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:34,160
Speaker 1: replace our toothbrushes. But more importantly, and this is where

15
00:00:34,159 --> 00:00:37,440
Speaker 1: you come in check our smoke alarms. Yeah that's right, yep.

16
00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:39,960
Speaker 2: Really good time to think about checking your smoke alarms,

17
00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:43,560
Speaker 2: or a minimum twice a year, we like to say, yeah,

18
00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:44,920
Speaker 2: but more often if you can.

19
00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:47,040
Speaker 1: Yeah. Although these days you've brought one in for a

20
00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:49,639
Speaker 1: bit of shell and tell here and I noted that

21
00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:53,199
Speaker 1: there's no penal to find the nine vault battery on

22
00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:54,840
Speaker 1: the back of it. More and more now you're finding

23
00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:55,800
Speaker 1: these long life ones.

24
00:00:56,120 --> 00:01:01,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, generally, most of the suppliers out there who sell them, well,

25
00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:05,440
Speaker 2: we'll be selling the long life ten years. Well they'll

26
00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:07,560
Speaker 2: say ten years on them, but let's call them long

27
00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:10,080
Speaker 2: life because they may or may not last ten years.

28
00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:13,160
Speaker 2: And that's what we recommend as well, long.

29
00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:15,959
Speaker 1: Life smoke alarms set and forget, but then even more

30
00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:18,480
Speaker 1: reason to check it to make sure it's still working.

31
00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:22,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, it does make that halves the job halves of workloads.

32
00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:24,120
Speaker 2: All you need to do is test it really yeah, right,

33
00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:29,440
Speaker 2: and these ones specifically, we recommend photo electric. Now what

34
00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:32,440
Speaker 2: does that mean? So basically, it's got a sensor inside it.

35
00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:35,080
Speaker 2: It's got two censors. Actually, it's got a little sensor

36
00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:40,240
Speaker 2: that basically picks up particles. So you know when you

37
00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:43,040
Speaker 2: walk through your dairy and the buzzer goes off, Yeah,

38
00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:46,400
Speaker 2: you're a giant particle passing through a beam. Same thing

39
00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:49,880
Speaker 2: for the smoke detector. Little smoke particles will break the

40
00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:52,880
Speaker 2: beam and when there's enough of them, it will set

41
00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:53,800
Speaker 2: the smoke alarm off.

42
00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:56,000
Speaker 1: Does that mean it's less likely to go off for

43
00:01:56,080 --> 00:01:58,440
Speaker 1: the likes of burnt toast or if I'm cooking bacon,

44
00:01:58,440 --> 00:01:58,960
Speaker 1: that sort of thing.

45
00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:02,640
Speaker 2: They say we're going to put me up, they say, yeah,

46
00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:05,200
Speaker 2: still pull you up, But you don't want to too

47
00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:07,400
Speaker 2: close to the kitchen, you know, in your living area,

48
00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:10,480
Speaker 2: but not yeah, not too close to a good segue.

49
00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:13,880
Speaker 1: Then, how many smoke alarms should we have? And where

50
00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:14,720
Speaker 1: are we putting them?

51
00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:18,440
Speaker 2: That's the track, Yeah, where are we putting them? So

52
00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:25,200
Speaker 2: if we look at legislation for landlords, it tells us

53
00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:27,800
Speaker 2: that we need one within three meters of a bedroom.

54
00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:29,040
Speaker 1: Door every bedroom.

55
00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:33,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, So that's three meters within three meters within a

56
00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:36,040
Speaker 2: bedroom door. Yeah right, So generally that's in the hallway

57
00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:39,000
Speaker 2: for landlords. Yeah, of course, we would like to see

58
00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:42,120
Speaker 2: them in every place where people are living. So that

59
00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:48,079
Speaker 2: means your bedroom, your hallway, and your living area.

60
00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:51,520
Speaker 1: Yeah right. Yeah, And like if we are talking living

61
00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:53,560
Speaker 1: area more and more now they're sort of open playing

62
00:02:53,639 --> 00:02:56,919
Speaker 1: with the kitchen as part of that. Yeah right, yeah,

63
00:02:57,160 --> 00:02:58,920
Speaker 1: So how far away from the kitchen?

64
00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:04,080
Speaker 2: So normally, I, you know, the kitchen's normally defined boundary,

65
00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:07,520
Speaker 2: So I'll put it just outside that kitchen area. But

66
00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:10,880
Speaker 2: then not above a fireplace either, and not generally I

67
00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:14,120
Speaker 2: wouldn't put them in full blast of a heat pump. Yeah,

68
00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:16,360
Speaker 2: because they can because they're a particle sense, so they

69
00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:20,000
Speaker 2: can pick up dust as well. So and so then

70
00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:24,880
Speaker 2: I'll segue into cleaning them. So every six months with

71
00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:26,359
Speaker 2: the vacuum cleaner out and give them a bit of

72
00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:27,320
Speaker 2: a clean and little.

73
00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:29,800
Speaker 1: Clean your smoke alert. Yeah it's not the thing real,

74
00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:32,800
Speaker 1: Yeah it is, Yeah it is. Yeah, Oh my gosh. Yeah. Right,

75
00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:36,840
Speaker 1: And what about in terms of placement, Fireman Steve, on

76
00:03:36,880 --> 00:03:38,600
Speaker 1: the wall or on the roof, on.

77
00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:41,240
Speaker 2: The ceiling, on the ceiling. Yeah, we put them on

78
00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:42,880
Speaker 2: the roof. The rain's going to get them wet, so

79
00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:43,680
Speaker 2: we won't want to do that.

80
00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:48,160
Speaker 1: Oh funny guy. Yeah, right on the ceiling, but not

81
00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:50,600
Speaker 1: on the ceiling, on the wall, not on the down Yeah,

82
00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:53,400
Speaker 1: because if you think about smoke rises, right, So if

83
00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:56,360
Speaker 1: you put it on the wall, you know, even just

84
00:03:56,360 --> 00:03:58,640
Speaker 1: above head height, that smoke's going to come all the

85
00:03:58,680 --> 00:03:59,480
Speaker 1: way down.

86
00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:01,600
Speaker 2: To the sense of before it goes off to the

87
00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:03,320
Speaker 2: smoke alone before you go off. So you want it

88
00:04:03,320 --> 00:04:05,200
Speaker 2: as the highest point of the ceiling if you can.

89
00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:08,600
Speaker 2: But obviously you want to be able to access it

90
00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:11,440
Speaker 2: as well. So you know, getting on stools. As we

91
00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:13,920
Speaker 2: get older, we lose our balance. So we recommend you

92
00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:15,720
Speaker 2: just give it a tap with the broom. They make

93
00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:18,520
Speaker 2: them nowadays with a big, big button. And if you've

94
00:04:18,520 --> 00:04:20,320
Speaker 2: got a little tiny button on it and it's a

95
00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:23,040
Speaker 2: really big old smoke alarm, you possibly want to think

96
00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:23,880
Speaker 2: about replacing it.

97
00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:27,000
Speaker 1: Well, there we go and super super quake. I've also

98
00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:29,800
Speaker 1: just thought of this myself. Ellis is at the age

99
00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:32,320
Speaker 1: now where we probably can start running some drills on

100
00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:35,680
Speaker 1: what happens if there is a fire coming up with

101
00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:37,240
Speaker 1: that meeting point outside for instance.

102
00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:39,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's right. Have a safe meeting place and

103
00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:42,960
Speaker 2: practice practice getting out, you know, so everyone knows in

104
00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:44,719
Speaker 2: the house where your safe meeting places.