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<\/a>I hop out of bed, wind my way through the herd of large dogs dashing about in confusion over the painful assault on their ears. I check the house. It\u2019s a small house: it does not take long to find that there is no fire, no smoldering appliance, indeed, no visible smoke. I grab a magazine off the kitchen island and wave it at the alarm nearest the kitchen.\u00a0 It\u2019s all I can think of to do at the moment: fanning the hallway alarm silences them when I\u2019ve been making toast. I\u2019m not good at toast.<\/p>\nAmazingly (or perhaps coincidentally) that works: the alarms fall silent.<\/p>\n
Blondie and Tinker stride to the door, \u201cWe\u2019re outta here, that\u2019s just RUDE.\u201d\u00a0 I don’t blame them and wonder what set the alarms off.<\/p>\n
The furnace had kicked on moments before the alarms sounded. I know that because I was laying in bed contemplating getting up to study. Normally I\u2019d have been up already, but the night before, Marie and I took shifts sitting with an anxious (and barky) Fido. He would only calm down if one of us was right there next to him. We are both tired and wanting to get back a little of that lost sleep.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut, it we\u2019re using the fireplace, the furnace should not be running.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe government may have good intentions, but they\u2019re not always all that bright.\u201d<\/p>\n In this case I think the fresh air vents worked backwards.<\/p>\n If I\u2019m wrong, it\u2019s going to be a long day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 4:30 AM: we are awakened by the shrill, asynchronous, electronic screams of our smoke alarms calling for us to “Get out! Get out! Get out!” I hop out of bed, wind my way through the herd of large dogs dashing about in confusion over the painful assault on their ears. I check the house. It’s … Continue reading “Smoke Makes for a Rude Awakening”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-12042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-mountain-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12042"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20867,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12042\/revisions\/20867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>Because we have a fireplace, our home builder was required to install a \u201cfresh air vent\u201d to the furnace. On the walk-through inspection of our new home I asked the builder what that black pipe-thing in the furnace room was. He said, \u201cThat\u2019s your government at work. They\u2019re afraid you will seal the house up tight, and keep the fireplace burning, and burn up all the oxygen in the house, and pass out. So they mandate that we install this vent to pull outside air in through the furnace.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/a>There is a wildfire burning near us. Not very near, but near enough to fill the air with smoke<\/a>. My working theory is that since we just reached the low temperature of the night (so far) the furnace kicked on to warm us up. It sucked smoky air in from our rooftop, blew it out our heat vents, and set off the smoke alarms. To prevent that from happening again, I\u2019ve stuffed a rolled up towel into the end of the \u201cfresh\u201d air vent. If I\u2019m right, that should fix it for now.<\/p>\n