How Effective Is Your Fire Alarm in Waking Young Children?

Would your young children wake up to the sound of a fire alarm -- and know what to do?


As reported  in the Epoch  News  March 13, 2011 really young children can often sleep right through a 3 minute fire alarm according Dr. Dorothy Bruck of Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia.


In her study of 123 children only 27 children were awakened by the alarm  and only 47 percent of them knew they had to flee the house.


In addition to this, researchers were alarmed by the fact that 87 percent of children between 5 to 10 years of age did not wake up to the alarm at all.


For the complete feature  on the topic "Most Children Don't Wake Up to Smoke Alarms" by Stephanie Lam, an Epoch Times  staff writer  click on www.epochtimes.com