Minnesota I decided to make some potato salad for the family and had started to heat up two pots full of water on the kitchen stove. While the water was heating, I sat down to take a quick catnap. I must have slept a little bit longer than I had planned because the next thing I knew, I was jolted …
View PostMonday morning at 6:30 our family was awakened by the noise of our Crossfire smoke detectors in the hallway and living room. We immediately followed our fire escape plan and got our children and ourselves out safely. We are grateful to Crossfire for providing us with alarms that respond so quickly to a smoldering fire. As fast as our house …
View PostIt was about 2:15 in the morning and everyone was asleep in the house. The fire started in the kitchen area on the stove. The smoke alarms woke my mother and son up first. They were asleep downstairs. My son came and woke us up and said there was a fire downstairs. We rushed downstairs and got everyone out of …
View PostUtah On November 27, our family was enjoying our Thanksgiving dinner. At 10:00pm my wife and I and our two sons were watching a Christmas movie. Suddenly our Crossfire smoke alarms went off. I went into the kitchen to silence the alarm and saw flames on my cupboard burning clear to the ceiling. I yelled “fire!” to my family, then …
View PostIowa On the evening of September 8, at 10:00pm my family went to bed. Prior to going to bed, I went to the basement and started a load of clothes in the dryer. At approximately 11:00pm I was awakened by the smoke detector in the main level of my house going off, just a few seconds later the smoke detector …
View PostWhile we were all at work and school, the pump on our fish aquarium caught on fire which destroyed the entire attic space of our home as well as our spare bedroom and our son’s room. The fireman said that upon arrival at our home all of the alarms were sounding. Those alarms were one of the first clues to …
View PostTexas On January 3, my grandmother put a plastic bowl in the oven and was sewing in the back part of the house. We’d just pulled our vehicle in the garage and we heard the smoke alarms going off. We ran in and saw the whole house full of smoke. Josh, my 14-year-old son, grabbed the fire extinguisher we bought. …
View PostWe have three kids and two dogs. Around 5:00pm on November 18, my wife Penny put a pan of oil on the stove to cook French fries. About 5:05pm, the smoke alarms went off. We were all upstairs. As we came down the stairs, flames were almost to the ceiling. Everyone knew what they had to do. I grabbed the …
View PostGeorgia On April 16, my husband put some chicken on the stove to cook. I went outside to care for osme plants and my husband came out to join me. We forgot all about the chicken and were outside nearly 45 minutes. We heard the alarm go off. We turned toward the house and saw the fire through the window …
View PostAfter dealing with Crossfire and people calling me with reports of home fire I never thought it would happen to me. At 7:30 in the evening, my family was sitting at home when my husband, Jim, came into the living room and asked if we smelled anything funny. We all said no and he went to our room to start …
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