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by bluGill 504 days ago
That is also why smoke alarms have interconnects, and there should be smoke detectors all over. The fire should be detected and sound an alarm long before it melts wiring.

Though smoke detectors only detect 40-50% of all fires in time to get out (dual sensor detectors can do much better!). A lot better than nothing, but still not very good.