I was emailed a rather disturbing video of a news report.

The news report is a story on fire alarms not waking up children. In essence, the alarm may stir a child from sleep, but they do not get out of bed.

The news story has a different alarm set up at the end that uses the voice of the childrens parent telling them that they need to get up and get out of bed.

If you want to see some websites that have some information on it, take a look at:

http://techdirt.com/articles/20061002/135421.shtml

http://www.channel3000.com/family/9150907/detail.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWX5uZ9yR5Y

http://www.wvdhhr.org/echp/articles/kids_sleep_through_firealarms.pdf

I would be happy to send it to anyone that wants to see it via email. However, I think the links above pretty much cover it. I don't have any kids, yet, but for those who do, this is something I think you might want to consider. At the very least, you might think about testing whether your kids will get out of bed when an alarm goes off.