Last Sunday at around 5am I was woken from a deep sleep by my smoke alarm. I went downstairs where my daughters boyfriend met me and we investigated why the house was filling up with smoke. I saw the smoke instantly pouring through the door that led to the garage and ran outside to see thick black smoke pouring out of the garage. There is nothing more frightening than this. Mainly because your family is asleep in the house. As I ran back in the house, in less than a minute the second floor was filled with black poisonus smoke where my son was sleeping. We both screamed "FIRE" and I frantically opened the windows to my bedroom, grabbed pants, laptop and briefcase, screamed at my son who bolted out his bedroom coughing, and staggering. My 23 year old daughter was dragged out in her underwear and the 3 dogs all spilled out into the front yard where shaking I tried to dial 911 on my cell phone, but could not due to sheer panic. I tried to calm down and dialed 911 where I said my house was on fire please help me. The Henderson Nevada Fire Dept. Arrived in 5 minutes, where I asked them all to please save my home. I have a valuable and dear art collection and alot of things. Thank God the fire was contained within the garage. The smoke damage to the house was horrific and made the home uninhabitable. Last night I moved into a nice home paid for by my insurance company. My paid for Nissan was destroyed as well as many items, but we are alive. What saved mine and my families lives was the 9 volt battery powered smoke detector. The monitered alarm system did not do anything. It went off 2 days later.
People be sure to put battery powered smoke alarms in your home and garage. I am very lucky to be here today.