A Cranbourne dad urges you to install smoke alarms in bedrooms after horror experience

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A Cranbourne father is advocating for people to install smoke alarms in all of their bedrooms after his two-year-old’s bedroom silently went up in flames. The toddler was treated for third-degree burns to her feet. Footage supplied by Country Fire Authority and Fire Rescue Victoria

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00:00I opened the door she was standing behind the door and I just grabbed her looked up

00:05and of a three meter room it would have been 2.5 meters in golf floor to ceilings in flames.

00:17So at three o'clock in the morning my wife and I woke up to our daughter screaming.

00:23We just thought it was a nightmare as young parents and never saving young children.

00:30We gave it sort of two minutes and went and shook her back to sleep and then we heard her scream and say help.

00:36As I got sort of around the corner to the other side of the door I saw smoke rolling at the bottom of the door

00:43seeping up to the roof and yeah just did what any other parent would do and kicked the door down.

00:50As I opened the door she was standing behind the door and I just grabbed her looked up and of a

00:57three meter room it would have been 2.5 meters in golf floor to ceilings in flames and it wasn't until

01:02I got to the door that the smoke alarms then went off because the doors were closed. I run my own

01:09business I've always done things to what the law is and what the standard is and I've never once

01:13thought to go with smoke alarms especially I've never once thought that they were required in

01:21bedrooms I've just thought the laws are there for a reason they're there to prevent things

01:25but I've never realized how outdated and useless they actually are if the doors are closed. I think

01:31that if there was a smoke alarm in the bedroom at the time that it would have picked up the initial

01:35smoke and smother before there was an actual fire in that room.

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