Comment on YSK Your smoke detectors should be replaced every 7-10 years
TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 3 days agoThey are mandatory in Ireland, so please stop the “Europe” stuff.
House fires were a huge cause of death and in apartment blocks they also can let one person’s mistake kill hundreds of others.
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social 3 days ago
I haven’t said they are not mandatory in Europe. I have said that I am European and haven’t seen them in the countries I lived in.
Tell me, are Spain and Italy countries that for some reason disqualify you from being European or did you just have a rough morning?
TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 3 days ago
No but it isn’t wise to generalise two of Europe’s less… regulated countries to just “Europe”. Pretty much every European country north of the Alps and west of the Vistula have mandatory smoke alarms/fire detection. It’s not a mystery why. 5000 Europeans a year die in residential fires and social housing, ie paid for by the tax payers, is disproportionately damaged by fire every year.
You can say where you’re from. Nobody’s coming to find you.