Close Before You Doze - Shutting Doors Can Save Lives
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2021
- Fire Department Coffee is offering some helpful tips for National Fire Prevention Week to help keep you and your loved ones safe. It’s amazing how effective a simple interior door can be in delaying the spread of smoke and fire. So this tip is about as simple as it gets: When you go to bed at night, close all the bedroom doors.
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People who sleep with the door open terrify people who sleep with one foot outside the duvet, they're not just leaving themselves vulnerable to monsters under the bed, they're inviting the entire neighbourhood's monsters so come over for an all you can grab ankle buffet.
What about those who sleep in the living room.... WITH NO SOCKS!!
@@Mr.C-4 Well they're the first ones to be sacrificed when the monsters come. It's only fair, it's how the couch surfers pay rent.
I don't run when I close the lights, even when I have the door open
@@lauraee9450 You invite doom to your house.
@@enoughofyourkoicarp I am the doom
Glad I already have this habit. Not because of fire safety, but because I'm a paranoid control freak about Places Where I Am Vulnerable.
We have to have the door closed because of the cats, but i am the opposite. I would prefer to have the door open because i am a pretty light sleeper and have pretty good hearing. With the door open i can hear pretty much everything happening in the house. Door closed, not so much. Can't wait for the youngest cat to mellow out so we can leave the doors open again.
Again, your sense of humor makes this educational upload one to watch over and over again
I would 'close before I doze' if I didn't have a cat.
Ever see what a cat will do to a closed door JUST BECAUSE IT IS CLOSED?
It's not that they need to be on the other side, it's just that they need to know they COULD be on the other side if they wanted to.
Came here for this comment. He obviously doesn’t have a cat 😂. One of my cats actually learned how to open doors, so it’s a lost cause for me
Yep. This is the dilemma I suffer too..
The cat outrage is real, I have resigned myself to the fact my door has to be cracked open at night, less I be awakened but an outraged cat at 5am
One of the many reasons I don’t have a cat.
Ahhh I hated this when I had cats….they would incessantly paw and meow at the door until I opened it. And they wouldn’t budge after opening the door.
already do this. definitely because of fire safety. totally not because I’m afraid of murderers in my house who specifically target people who sleep with the door open.
I do it because i like to sleep in peace. There's 6 people living in my house
I was lying in bed and noticed that my door was a crack open. I kinda just grumbled to myself because there was absolutely no way I had the strength to get up and close it, then I got this video in my recommended...
It's closed now.
Had a house fire back in 09. Closed my bedroom door before I evacuated my apartment. The whole place was torched, aside from my room. Other than a thin smoke line around the door frame, you'd never know there was a fire.
As a heavy sleeper, I always close (and lock) my door. Not for smoke (good idea), but if someone breaks into my house, they will have to bust through the door, obviously waking me up.
My thoughts exactly 😂
It's not about protection but about getting a warning
@@cauchyschwarz3295 Yep
My four-legged overlords would never permit me to do such a thing.
You did great job informing the world ,how important it is close your door. Thank you.
I've seen demonstrations. It's crazy the difference. I've always closed my door out of habit cuz I grew up in a big family. They're always so noisy when I needed to go to bed. Now it just feels weird to have it open.
Same here lol you get used to it and then it's just odd it feels naked and exposed leaving it open🤣🤣
@@manedwolfwithagmailaccount1478 exactly. I feel like someone's going to just jump out in front of my door lol
@@lovelight6973 you wouldn't have that problem if you had a really really huge dog.
We tried closing the doors but its impossible with our cat. As soon as the doors are closed and we are inside he runs through the hall and bodyslams his entire weight into them. Repeats the process until we open the door. Cats are assholes, he tried to kill me once with a marble statuette that sat on a shelf above our bed. We no longer keep heavy objects there. My wife loves him though, so here we are.
@@hisdud3ness93 lol yeah cats are serious bitches 😁🤣
Oh my crap, this is the first I'm hearing of this! Thank you!
Of course!!
Then there's me. Will wake up to a candle burning in the house (or food cooking) but can sleep through the fire alarm despite it being directly outside my bedroom door as we found out when it randomly decided to go off for no reason.
Had a fire alarm that did that too, "Oh you're making toast? With a heat source? That's a fire hazard. BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!", toast doesn't smoke but cigarettes do and funnily enough it wouldn't go off for that, we learn to adapt, even if it's actually detrimental for our survival in the event of the Damn thing *not* cryin' wolf, you either slept through it or you got the broom or that piece of cardboard specifically tucked between the wall and the washer for this very purpose, and you tried to fan whatever smoke your fire alarm was hallucinating at the moment.
lol sounds like you at least don't need a smoke detector because you ARE the smoke detector
Honestly this, along with some sign of who is in the house, pets included. Including exactly where you are helps FD get to you as fast as they can. You may not be able to communicate with 911 everything they need. Those little things like closing your door and adding signs may very well be what saves your life. Because you do that and everyone on scene knows how to interpret that and act if heaven forbid you cannot. 💯🚨
*Also, as someone who regularly sleep-walks. Closing that door, in my case adding an alarm as well, has made it so much easier for myself and those around me. To this day if I’m not awakened by my own alert, I will walk out of the house at 3:30 am and be fully unconscious.
If this applies to you let people know and protect yourself as much as possible.
Because trust, being ‘woken-up’ by someone who just ran and pulled you off the highway is no fun at all.
(Even worse- it’s someone you know, very well. That next day they there will be jokes. No question. 🤦♀️🤷♀️🤣😂🚨)
0:30 Years ago...when WotLK was still the rage in WoW...I was part of a raid about to start ICC. We were using VENTRILO. There was someone...sounded either doped out or had something else going on. Out of the blue they said in a matter-of-a-fact way "my house is on fire"...quickly followed by a shrieking "MY HOUSE IS ON FIRE!" after which they dropped out of game & Vent...to never return.
"That's a bathroom" You crack me up.
Thank you! God bless you!
This is compleatly UNREALISTIC ADVICE!!! Especially if you have no kids!!! This just isn't done...
Not spoken about - CLOSE THE BATHROOM DOOR SO YOU DON'T KILL YOUR COWORKERS/FAMILY!
I almost fell out of my chair when he jumped out the window with a uncrustables in his mouth.
The doors in our house stay open at night for five reasons: so air can circulate; so heat can circulate (in winter); so I can hear my kids if they call out for me; so I can hear weird noises if something hinky is going on; & so the dogs can attack anyone who tries to break in.
Do what you want to do lol he just made a suggestion
@@ronthemogul I know. My husband is a volunteer firefighter & we have smoke detectors & escape ladders for upstairs rooms, so I think we're doing the best we can.
I totally agree with everything you said here. My oldest closes her door when she goes to bed, but I open it when I go to bed because my youngest is in there also. I need to hear my kids.
Get baby monitors.
If you got enough smoke alarms you have a problem. I understand what he says to a point.
When you somebody awake in the house all hours of the day it doesn't really matter. If a fire grew quick enough to consume the others before their screams of panic and pain could awake me. Welp I am pretty sure I am going to following soon after no matter what.
I’ll never sleep with the door shut. I like that adrenaline rush I get when I wake up and see my gamble payed off
Thank you for sharing. It's not something I've ever thought of before.
I wish I could sleep with the door closed, but then I paranoid there's an intruder waiting to ambush me! PTSD sucks...
"So, where in the house is your cat?" Lollllll
I can smell and taste that smoke machine smoke😂🤣
My dad was a firefighter and we were never allowed to sleep with our doors open for this reason, and I've done the same with my kids. Going to bed with an open door is just creepy, and terrifying to me now lol
Hubby has picked on me about needing doors closed when I go to sleep. I can FEEL that they're open and need to be closed or I can't sleep.
Last time I slept with the door closed, I didn't hear the home invader break in. He was armed and I'm lucky to be alive. No thanks.
It would be interesting to know whether home invasion is a more or less common occurence than house fires.
And then the decision could be based on that
I feel like a security system, or some motion lights, or even just a dog would be a better solution to this security problem than sleeping with the door open and hoping to hear the intruder before he's standing in your bedroom.
@@outsider344 I have all of that, except the dog.
Did you confront the intruder or did you sleep through the event?
@@cauchyschwarz3295A similar argument rages regarding the added security of double cylinder deadbolts (needing a key from the inside) vs. the ease of escaping.
See mom I have to keep my door closed! The firefighter said so!
I close my doors because *siblings*
But, fire sounds like a good reason as well
Good thing I already do that - Mostly because as a kid I had a wild fantasy and always thinking there is someone in the shadows starring at me... oo and waiting till I sleep... or don't look...
Already have the habit because I'm paranoid that some creepy thing is gonna stare at me while I sleep. Also so my mother doesn't know I'm reading until 11am on a school night.
I always sleep with the door open. I’m a heavy sleeper, so If an intruder breaks into my house, I’m more likely to hear it and react before it’s too late.
Well, the bathroom door should be closed too!
Due to Geneva Convention violating Bio-Chem components stowed within...
I have no bedroom doors. and my only doorway thats available is into the kitchen. good thing I got a window!
good info, funny dude!
As an introvert this is not a problem
Lol also applies to the bathroom.
Also helps if you have a door between you and the rest of the living space. Lol
yeah but what if the fire is in your room lol
Why the second channel? Is this different than fire department chronicles?
This would be nice if my father actually allowed me to fully close doors at night
That's creepy....
Agreed. My father wouldn't let me close my door when I lived at home. Unless I was changing.... But no other time.
People who sleep with their door open have cats....
Or severe claustrophobia
And for the love of God. IF YOU SMELL SMOKE DONT GRAB THE DOORKNOB LIKE HE DID. Congrats now you've burned your hand.
Correct! Always feel the door with the back of your hand first to check if it's hot. My firefighter dad drilled us on this stuff when I was a kid. I definitely have never forgotten lom
We all close doors now, but the first time my parents closed their doors my sister got really ill, and had to be taken to the hospital where she died a few days later. They couldn’t do it for years after. So, there is that. 😰
My bedroom has no door and my parents refuse to fix it. Guess I'm dying if there is a fire
I have young children in the house so....
My door is open.
Their door is open.
Everything between them and me is always wide open.
...I'm going to double the fire detectors.
does it also help prevent the air in your room from feeding the fire, increasing the chances it will snuff itself out or at least slow the burn?
I used to sleep with the door open when I was younger because I was scared of being alone. Now I just need the room to be as dark as possible.
Yah, can't do that in my house. If I close the door I don't get the heat coming from the open oven. Landlord is too cheap to fix the A/C and heat so I do what I can.
Do me, it is a paradox. If you close the door you may be safe, but you can not see the dangers that lurk outside the door. I like to know the danger I am facing because I do not like the unknown. But at the same time the dagers on the other side of the door may be blocked by the door so they are no longer a danger until you open the door. But if you have the door closed, you may not know what dangers lurk outside the door....
Schrödinger's door!
you don't have pets do you? they NEVER EVER get tired of whining and scratching on your door to get in or out.
Tell me you don’t train your pets: without telling me you don’t train your pets.
@@Csawllc ...or tell me you have a cat!
Or children.
My carpets would never recover if I close my door.
Another reason why I think cats are just glorified rodents
Odd, but for me having a closed bedroom door freaks me out. Claustrophobic. I know it should be closed but I feel closed off from our house. Plus our dog moves from our room to the hallway and back throughout the night.
I’m sure I’ll a lot sooner, if I sleep with my bedroom door closed! I’ve only got 8 m2 bedroom and with the door closed I would be breathing the same air all night, and that’s not healthy!
I respect that, but my cats come in and out of my room, so I leave the door open.
If you sleep with the door open you’re just asking to wake up one night and look at a ghostly figure staring back at you in the hallway.
Or hovering over you preparing to rape you...lmao
Yeah, it happened to me once. Dude didn't know what to do so I just covered him tightly in his blanket, gave him a goodnight kiss and closed his door.
Wait, there are people who sleep with the door open?
LOTS of people who sleep with the door open, some of us out of absolute necessity.
This is how meetings go in the Netherlands.
ua-cam.com/video/ix5TZ44osBo/v-deo.html
as you can see fire is not the only thing to worry about.
I'm having a hard time understanding them. Meaning i don't understand anything 😂
Do you mind summarising the plot? I feel like it would be even funnier
@@migolan6606 Alright. First of, as you have guessed it's comedy with plenty of nonsense. It's a club meeting with five members. One member wants to interrupt the meeting to open the window to get rid of all the smoke. Second member wants to close the window due to the draft. The woman then wants to check if they have landed successfully and the man offers to companion her with the walk to the window. Then the annoyed leader calls his wife to inform her he will be at home much earlier than expected.
You can search youtube for "Rembo & Rembo" to find more of these sketches. It was on dutch TV from 1987 - 1997.
@@SE45CX Thanks 😂
Who wouldn't close their door? That means monsters can get in and eat you while ur trying to sleep
Yeah, but keeping the door closed would keep my dogs from attacking any intruders. ←sarcasm
Sorry, No. HVAC technicians will tell you no also. HVAC is designed for houses with all doors open so unless your door has a vent (which defeats your point) then closing rooms off overworks your HVAC system and will degrade it faster.
None of that has anything to do with a house fire. Thank you though
I hope you didn't touch a metal knock in a fire safety video with your bare hands
Would have been more funny if it was a closet.
doesn't work if you have cats.
Is that just so you can smash them down like you break every fucking window inside a person home?
The fire is going to break the windows anyway, and you need to get airflow into the building to clear out the smoke. If your door is unlocked, and it uses a handle that they can actually grasp though their gloves, they are just going to open the door normally. It takes more time to break down a door than it does to just open it in the first place.
@@markymarksthirdnipple8305 No, we're a Linux only household
You seem upset about this? Have you ever had the opportunity to smash windows and break down doors? It’s fun as hell
Nah I'm good, I'd rather hear if someone breaks in.
If you have working smoke detectors in the right places this tip is useless
d...Did you just tell an active duty FIREFIGHTER that he doesn't know about HOUSE FIRES?
@@richardmillhousenixon your comprehension skills are crappy cuz I never said he doesn't know about house fires. I said this tip is useless if you know how to use smoke detectors properly in your home
@@richardmillhousenixon if you know how to properly install smoke and CO detectors, and you know where to put them, why would you have to bunker down in your room when you have an early warning system that lets you get out of the house before it f****** engulfs? Come on smart guy I'd like to hear your reply to that
@@richardmillhousenixon I mean it's not like he's the only firefighter in the world you know there's a few other of us on here too
@@theyearwas1473 You're wrong, but keep on keeping on dude.
Police are better