Fire alarms are an important part of safety of oneself, one's family as well as property. The value of the alarms came to light yet again in the recently rated 'world's best city to live in' i.e. Melbourne.
A house in the Australian city was up in flames when the alarms that the smoke and heat triggered off sounded. The alarms were the difference between what could have been a major accident at the abode. Three people escaped from their burning home in Melbourne's bayside suburb of Sandringham after smoke alarms woke them up. On hearing the alarms and the commotion, fire fighters were called at the site of the one-storey building at around 11:45 in the night.
An elderly couple and one more member of the same family escaped the premises without injury, since they had been woken up in a timely fashion by the fire alarms. The cause of the blaze is yet unknown.