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11 y old boy up late playing video game(Rainbow 6: Seige)saves family from house fire
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Exactly. Reminds me of the story about some robber that was gonna kill a mans wife and kids because he had noise-cancelling headphones on.
JHoNNy1OoO
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It depends on how far away they were from the alarm. That is why smoke alarms these days can be daisy-chained quite easily. So if you have an alarm in the kitchen and it goes off it'll trigger the smoke alarm by the bedrooms as well. Some people are also incredibly heavy sleepers. I live in the city on a busy street and slept through a car crash right in front of my house that destroyed my neighbors car and the drivers. I only woke up when I heard the police sirens arriving.
Glad everything turned out alright for these people.
prag16
Banned
This was my first thought. I sleep like the dead, and our alarm cuts right through that. There's a ~5-10 second period where I'm really hazy but after that I'm up. If NOBODY who was asleep heard the alarm, and the kid couldn't hear it over some headphones, yeah, they need a better alarm.
GifGafIsTheBestGaf
Member
Nice ending. Good friend this kid has as well.
FriedConsole
Banned
I guess I need to turn back on voice chat to save lives.
Maybe the passed out kid was after the 11 year old opened the door? Smoke generally won't go under doors?
I have genuinely done "Going to have to skip out, folks, looks like I've been burgled"
MyNameIsRye
Member
Shoot and miss.
AngryPuppyEsq
Member
Good thing that kid wasn't sleeping on R6 Siege like everyone else.
midasmulligan
Member
Moral of the story, video games save lives
PeskyToaster
Member
Another win for Siege. Don't sleep on it like Julius.
NinjamicWZ
Banned
Probably would have had headphones on because other people are sleeping.
Good story but holy shit is that writing atrocious.
"all ready dead"
"Play Station 4"
"playing the PS4 right her"
"Ethan said he walked out of the room and saw huge flames in the kitchen, but that's when he sprang into action."
These people get paid for this and they can't even bother to use anything other than spellcheck.
"all ready dead"
"Play Station 4"
"playing the PS4 right her"
"Ethan said he walked out of the room and saw huge flames in the kitchen, but that's when he sprang into action."
These people get paid for this and they can't even bother to use anything other than spellcheck.
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Jotamide
Unconfirmed Member
Damn.
He'll save the world with that.
thiscoldblack
Unconfirmed Member
My PS4 sounds so loud when playing the Uncharted Collection, that I won't be able to hear my smoke alarms.
Holy crap this is similar to what happened to me and my family.
I was playing The Witcher 2 at around 3 AM (I know) and felt hungry so I went downstairs for a snack.
Got to the kitchen and from there I could smell smoke, it was coming from the garage...
I opened the back door to the garage (you could access it from inside the house) and what I saw inside was a massive fire with all the smoke billowing out of the door I just opened.
As soon as I saw that I rushed to wake up everyone in my family, with my dad calling the firefighters the moment everyone was safe. The fire itself was contained to the garage and hallway thanks to the firefighters so fortunately the house was still in decent shape.
Apparently the garage door motor was the cause of the fire.
If I wasn't playing video games up late I can't imagine what would've happened.
I was playing The Witcher 2 at around 3 AM (I know) and felt hungry so I went downstairs for a snack.
Got to the kitchen and from there I could smell smoke, it was coming from the garage...
I opened the back door to the garage (you could access it from inside the house) and what I saw inside was a massive fire with all the smoke billowing out of the door I just opened.
As soon as I saw that I rushed to wake up everyone in my family, with my dad calling the firefighters the moment everyone was safe. The fire itself was contained to the garage and hallway thanks to the firefighters so fortunately the house was still in decent shape.
Apparently the garage door motor was the cause of the fire.
If I wasn't playing video games up late I can't imagine what would've happened.
blame space
Banned
I wonder what headset he was using.
Mr Fahrenheit
Member
They're using the Dark Souls of smoke alarms.
SoldierIce64
Member
Oh wow, that happened in my hometown that I'm going back to in a couple of weeks. Good that no one was hurt.
LucidMomentum
Member
Ayy, guess we live in the same town.
Come to the biweekly Smash tournaments if you play - I run them
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
Banned
Damn. Seems like the kid took Rainbow Six: Seige too seriously and started breaching everything. Once it got out of control, he blamed it on the fire.
Sure, kid. Sure.
xVodevil
Member
Yeah that rating, my first thought.
Dreadnought
Member
Best game of the decade indeed
Speedwagon
Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel. Yabuki turned off voice chat in Mario Kart races. True artists of their time.
I think he would've heard the beeping if he wasn't playing video gmaes
Sheriff_Battlesnake
Banned
This is awesome, but I wonder if we'd even have the story if he didn't have headphones on.
"Boy hears fire alarm and makes family aware of fire." isn't quite the same headline.
"Boy hears fire alarm and makes family aware of fire." isn't quite the same headline.
Foldedpencil
Banned
Dat destructible environment tho!
Maybe it was a 11 y old boy up late writing video game(Rainbow 6: Seige)news?
George Claw M.D.
Member
I'm surprised the smoke alarm didn't even wake anyone up. Those things are loud as hell.
I definitely said "gotta go, earthquake" on Mumble a month or two ago. May have been the last thing my friend ever heard me say...
justsomeguy
Member
Folks if YOUR house doesn't have smoke alarms please get some today.
You can get interlinked ones too, so that you can put them in several rooms - if one goes off they all go off, so you will always hear it.
I have several of the third one down on this page: http://www.safelincs.co.uk/radio-interlinked-smoke-alarms/
Plus a heat alarm for the kitchen (smoke alarms in kitchen go off too easily) and a CO detector in the room with our log burner.
My friend's children are growing up without a Daddy because his house didn't have smoke alarms. RIP Benjy :'(
You can get interlinked ones too, so that you can put them in several rooms - if one goes off they all go off, so you will always hear it.
I have several of the third one down on this page: http://www.safelincs.co.uk/radio-interlinked-smoke-alarms/
Plus a heat alarm for the kitchen (smoke alarms in kitchen go off too easily) and a CO detector in the room with our log burner.
My friend's children are growing up without a Daddy because his house didn't have smoke alarms. RIP Benjy :'(
NullPointer
Member
The moral of the story here is that single player VR games are going to lead to a lot of avoidable deaths.
Drilbit777
Member
Mad respect for that kid for taking the initiative to save those people, glad to know theres still some good people left in this world.
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