Mr. RR is fanatical about smoke detectors and CO2 detectors. We have them everywhere. A smoke detector not only needs new batteries twice a year, but the dectectors need to be replaced every eight to ten years. I'm so sorry for the loss to your whole family.
May I mention another sad cautionary tale. About six weeks ago, my three-year old grandnephew got into his grandmother's supply of Lomotil (anti-diarrheal prescription). They had a sweet flavored coating, and he swallowed a bunch of them. Sadly, he died of acute respiratory failure the next morning.
Please everyone, keep meds locked up and check those detectors. Lives, literally, depend on it.
We are also quite fanatical about keeping our smoke detector batteries changed and working. One can only wonder how many senior citizens and people living in poverty in old homes have no smoke detectors.
PapaDearest raised the issue that seatbelts are mandatory, while many children live in homes without fire protection and die just as horrifically by smoke and fire as by auto accident, yet there are no mandates to update old homes with this vital life saving equipment.
I'm so sorry to hear of your loss RushmoreRocks. So sad to lose someone so young.
Prayers for your family, also, RR
Oh my.
Prayers for you and your family, Rushmore Rocks.