One of my BLIP! neighbours BLIP! needs to BLIP! replace the battery BLIP! in their fire BLIP! alarm.
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There's been a quiet chirp coming from an area shared by 5 properties for the last year. I can't tell where it's coming from, and none of them have responded to a as-kind-as-I-could-muster note I've left them all. At least it's quiet enough to ignore if you're at least the tiniest bit tired.
Last year, though, for 3-4 months straight, there was two going off in our neighbor's back yard directly outside our bedroom window that's right near the head of our bed. For Christmas, I gave them a little gift box with 2 9v batteries and a $10 Target gift card with a note "Wishing you and your family a healthy, safe, and fire-free new year". I'll note that this is the neighbor that had all sorts of illegal out-buildings and unlicensed additions and electrical and had an RV catch fire and burned down a recently-build 2-story "shed" and the only reason the fire department showed up was because we called 911, and then the city/fire marshall made them tear down a bunch of their structures and add-ons Since then, the dad died from a cancer he was fighting, and another neighbor told us that the (adult age) kids sort of blame us for calling 911 because of the aftermath with the city and law enforcement with having to evict a bunch of their illegal tennants, and that the stress of it all might have stressed him out and die sooner.
And I'm sure these smoke detectors were ones that were forced to install by the city, too.
