September 28, 2025 • 4 mins
Local firefighter Steve Ochsner was back in with a timely reminder to check our smoke alarms
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Our friendly local firefighter, Steve Oxner.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Morning morning, how are you.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
You're good? You are adjusted to the daylight saving yet no,
it messes with you all yesterday. Of course you can't
look at the clock on the walk because they haven't
changed that yet, or in the car. I'm not even
going to try. I'm just going to leave it six
months and it'll right itself when we're back again. But
glancing at my phone's thinking, shoot, it's twelve o'clock already.
Shoot it's two o'clocker. Really, shoot, I should be in
(00:24):
bed by now.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Yeah. Time gets your own and it's sure so, of.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Course daylight saving. It's also a great reminder to gun
replace our toothbrushes. But more importantly, and this is where
you come in check our smoke alarms. Yeah that's right, yep.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Really good time to think about checking your smoke alarms,
or a minimum twice a year, we like to say, yeah,
but more often if you can.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Yeah. Although these days you've brought one in for a
bit of shell and tell here and I noted that
there's no penal to find the nine vault battery on
the back of it. More and more now you're finding
these long life ones.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Yeah, generally, most of the suppliers out there who sell them, well,
we'll be selling the long life ten years. Well they'll
say ten years on them, but let's call them long
life because they may or may not last ten years.
And that's what we recommend as well, long.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Life smoke alarms set and forget, but then even more
reason to check it to make sure it's still working.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yeah, it does make that halves the job halves of workloads.
All you need to do is test it really yeah, right,
and these ones specifically, we recommend photo electric. Now what
does that mean? So basically, it's got a sensor inside it.
It's got two censors. Actually, it's got a little sensor
that basically picks up particles. So you know when you
(01:40):
walk through your dairy and the buzzer goes off, Yeah,
you're a giant particle passing through a beam. Same thing
for the smoke detector. Little smoke particles will break the
beam and when there's enough of them, it will set
the smoke alarm off.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Does that mean it's less likely to go off for
the likes of burnt toast or if I'm cooking bacon,
that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
They say we're going to put me up, they say, yeah,
still pull you up, But you don't want to too
close to the kitchen, you know, in your living area,
but not yeah, not too close to a good segue.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Then, how many smoke alarms should we have? And where
are we putting them?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
That's the track, Yeah, where are we putting them? So
if we look at legislation for landlords, it tells us
that we need one within three meters of a bedroom.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Door every bedroom.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Yeah, So that's three meters within three meters within a
bedroom door. Yeah right, So generally that's in the hallway
for landlords. Yeah, of course, we would like to see
them in every place where people are living. So that
means your bedroom, your hallway, and your living area.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yeah right. Yeah, And like if we are talking living
area more and more now they're sort of open playing
with the kitchen as part of that. Yeah right, yeah,
So how far away from the kitchen?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
So normally, I, you know, the kitchen's normally defined boundary,
So I'll put it just outside that kitchen area. But
then not above a fireplace either, and not generally I
wouldn't put them in full blast of a heat pump. Yeah,
because they can because they're a particle sense, so they
can pick up dust as well. So and so then
(03:20):
I'll segue into cleaning them. So every six months with
the vacuum cleaner out and give them a bit of
a clean and little.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Clean your smoke alert. Yeah it's not the thing real,
Yeah it is, Yeah it is. Yeah, Oh my gosh. Yeah. Right,
And what about in terms of placement, Fireman Steve, on
the wall or on the roof, on.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
The ceiling, on the ceiling. Yeah, we put them on
the roof. The rain's going to get them wet, so
we won't want to do that.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Oh funny guy. Yeah, right on the ceiling, but not
on the ceiling, on the wall, not on the down Yeah,
because if you think about smoke rises, right, So if
you put it on the wall, you know, even just
above head height, that smoke's going to come all the
way down.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
To the sense of before it goes off to the
smoke alone before you go off. So you want it
as the highest point of the ceiling if you can.
But obviously you want to be able to access it
as well. So you know, getting on stools. As we
get older, we lose our balance. So we recommend you
just give it a tap with the broom. They make
them nowadays with a big, big button. And if you've
got a little tiny button on it and it's a
(04:20):
really big old smoke alarm, you possibly want to think
about replacing it.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Well, there we go and super super quake. I've also
just thought of this myself. Ellis is at the age
now where we probably can start running some drills on
what happens if there is a fire coming up with
that meeting point outside for instance.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Yeah, yeah, that's right. Have a safe meeting place and
practice practice getting out, you know, so everyone knows in
the house where your safe meeting places.
Our friendly local firefighter, Steve Oxner.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Morning morning, how are you.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
You're good? You are adjusted to the daylight saving yet no,
it messes with you all yesterday. Of course you can't
look at the clock on the walk because they haven't
changed that yet, or in the car. I'm not even
going to try. I'm just going to leave it six
months and it'll right itself when we're back again. But
glancing at my phone's thinking, shoot, it's twelve o'clock already.
Shoot it's two o'clocker. Really, shoot, I should be in
(00:24):
bed by now.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Yeah. Time gets your own and it's sure so, of.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Course daylight saving. It's also a great reminder to gun
replace our toothbrushes. But more importantly, and this is where
you come in check our smoke alarms. Yeah that's right, yep.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Really good time to think about checking your smoke alarms,
or a minimum twice a year, we like to say, yeah,
but more often if you can.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Yeah. Although these days you've brought one in for a
bit of shell and tell here and I noted that
there's no penal to find the nine vault battery on
the back of it. More and more now you're finding
these long life ones.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Yeah, generally, most of the suppliers out there who sell them, well,
we'll be selling the long life ten years. Well they'll
say ten years on them, but let's call them long
life because they may or may not last ten years.
And that's what we recommend as well, long.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Life smoke alarms set and forget, but then even more
reason to check it to make sure it's still working.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yeah, it does make that halves the job halves of workloads.
All you need to do is test it really yeah, right,
and these ones specifically, we recommend photo electric. Now what
does that mean? So basically, it's got a sensor inside it.
It's got two censors. Actually, it's got a little sensor
that basically picks up particles. So you know when you
(01:40):
walk through your dairy and the buzzer goes off, Yeah,
you're a giant particle passing through a beam. Same thing
for the smoke detector. Little smoke particles will break the
beam and when there's enough of them, it will set
the smoke alarm off.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Does that mean it's less likely to go off for
the likes of burnt toast or if I'm cooking bacon,
that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
They say we're going to put me up, they say, yeah,
still pull you up, But you don't want to too
close to the kitchen, you know, in your living area,
but not yeah, not too close to a good segue.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Then, how many smoke alarms should we have? And where
are we putting them?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
That's the track, Yeah, where are we putting them? So
if we look at legislation for landlords, it tells us
that we need one within three meters of a bedroom.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Door every bedroom.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Yeah, So that's three meters within three meters within a
bedroom door. Yeah right, So generally that's in the hallway
for landlords. Yeah, of course, we would like to see
them in every place where people are living. So that
means your bedroom, your hallway, and your living area.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yeah right. Yeah, And like if we are talking living
area more and more now they're sort of open playing
with the kitchen as part of that. Yeah right, yeah,
So how far away from the kitchen?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
So normally, I, you know, the kitchen's normally defined boundary,
So I'll put it just outside that kitchen area. But
then not above a fireplace either, and not generally I
wouldn't put them in full blast of a heat pump. Yeah,
because they can because they're a particle sense, so they
can pick up dust as well. So and so then
(03:20):
I'll segue into cleaning them. So every six months with
the vacuum cleaner out and give them a bit of
a clean and little.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Clean your smoke alert. Yeah it's not the thing real,
Yeah it is, Yeah it is. Yeah, Oh my gosh. Yeah. Right,
And what about in terms of placement, Fireman Steve, on
the wall or on the roof, on.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
The ceiling, on the ceiling. Yeah, we put them on
the roof. The rain's going to get them wet, so
we won't want to do that.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Oh funny guy. Yeah, right on the ceiling, but not
on the ceiling, on the wall, not on the down Yeah,
because if you think about smoke rises, right, So if
you put it on the wall, you know, even just
above head height, that smoke's going to come all the
way down.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
To the sense of before it goes off to the
smoke alone before you go off. So you want it
as the highest point of the ceiling if you can.
But obviously you want to be able to access it
as well. So you know, getting on stools. As we
get older, we lose our balance. So we recommend you
just give it a tap with the broom. They make
them nowadays with a big, big button. And if you've
got a little tiny button on it and it's a
(04:20):
really big old smoke alarm, you possibly want to think
about replacing it.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Well, there we go and super super quake. I've also
just thought of this myself. Ellis is at the age
now where we probably can start running some drills on
what happens if there is a fire coming up with
that meeting point outside for instance.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Yeah, yeah, that's right. Have a safe meeting place and
practice practice getting out, you know, so everyone knows in
the house where your safe meeting places.
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