For the past few days, I noticed a smell of something burning.
A few days? Maybe I'm over-reacting to this story, but that's a long time to notice the smell of something burning in your house without figuring out the source. I think lesson #1 would be to not ignore a burning smell inside your house. I can't imagine going to sleep knowing that something could be burning in my house and not knowing where, especially with a child. The burning smell could've been something far more dangerous than loose breakers.
Sorry, it seem that I had given the impression that there is a continuous burning smell for a few days. What I meant was my family members and myself noticed a very faint smell of burning in the evening for the past few days. Each time we would go around searching for the smell. But the smell would disappear within 10 minutes. During day time, none of us can detect any burning smell.
I had triple checked that there is no more burning smell or open flame in / around my house before going to sleep.
Do you have smoke detectors and regularly check those batteries?
I will get some smoke detectors installed and properly have to try out the existing fire extinguishers and topup too.
At the risk of being tortured with extra bright LEDs, I think you ought to get back to the basics of home preparedness.
Yes, I do have those stuff you mentioned and a plan to handle the potential risks impacting my house or region. There was no need to deploy those items so I did not mentioned them.
This incident show the differences between what I imagine is need for a power failure situation and what is actually needed.
I've always been a little leary of rechargeable batteries, they seem to always need recharging whenever I need them. They're ok for my kids' game systems but for an emergency situation (or semi-ememergency) I want dependable power immediately.
I agree.
The rechargeable batteries are for everyday use DD's cd player, clocks, remotes,etc.
I keep a stash of alkaline batteries for emergency use.
I had the same view too. My rechargeable batteries are solely for my kid's toys. For emergency kits, I would prefer primary battery. It just happen that I had spend the time & effort to recharge all the batteries and it fail me less than 7 days later when I need them.
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