You Need To See This Fire Department’s Viral Post Explaining Why Your Kids Should Never Go To Sleep With Their Bedroom Door Open
Cold Spring Harbor, New York. I know it can be difficult for some children to be ok with you closing their bedroom door after tucking them in at night.
They might be scared of the dark, or of not being heard if they call out to you. They might just feel insecure about having a shut door between you and them.
Although a child might feel safer with you leaving it wide open, or even just cracked a little bit…
…It turns out that something so seemingly small is putting them in serious danger.
A post from a New York fire department went viral for explaining why your child should never go to sleep with their bedroom door open at all.
You need to see why it’s so important to keep their door closed when you go to bed at night.
“As a parent, it’s hard to convince little kids to sleep with the door closed, they always want it open just a little,” the Cold Spring Harbor Fire Department started out by saying.
“I do a lot of fire prevention at schools, so one thing I try and stress to the kids is, how important it is to sleep with the doors closed.”
Facebook; pictured above is the bedroom door from the hallway that was scorched by the fire
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The shocking photos they shared make it completely clear why you need to keep their doors closed for them.
The Cold Spring Harbor Fire Department then explains that right across the Long Island Sound in New Fairfield, Connecticut there was a house fire.
The photos taken from the Town of New Fairfield’s Fire Marshal’s Office show the difference between keeping a door open or closed.
“This morning members of New Fairfield’s Fire Departments along with mutual aid departments responded to a residential structure fire. The homeowners and family dog are all doing well.”
“The photos below are a great example of the importance of keeping bedroom doors closed while sleeping.”
“The door pictured in both photos is a hollow core door to a bedroom. While the front of the door is severely damaged the closed-door protected the bedroom and its contents.”
“If this were an occupied bedroom the closed door could have saved a life. The cause and origin of the fire are under investigation and believed to be accidental in nature (Photos shared with homeowners consent.)”
“The first picture is the hallway and the second is from inside the room!”
Facebook; pictured above is what the inside of the room looked like because the door was closed
Look at these photos, it’s easy to see exactly how important it is to keep doors closed, and you can imagine how much worse this could have been if they had been open. You can see the original post here.
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