Hey —
New post is live and this one is personal.
My parents had a fire in my childhood home that started at the dryer in the basement. They got the fire department there before it became catastrophic — but the fire, smoke, and water damage still put them out of the house for a full year while it was rebuilt.
Nobody in my family runs the dryer while they're away from home or asleep. I sure don't.
That story is in the new post along with everything else I've built around fire preparedness — the prevention habits, the suppression gear, and the specific evacuation plan my family would actually execute at 2am.
Including the part where I'd zip my daughter into a duffel bag and lower her out a window by rope. If you haven't been paying attention to the tone of these posts, that sentence probably sounds extreme. If you have — you already know that's exactly the kind of thinking that belongs here.
Talk soon,
Sean
Prepared Dad Life
prepareddadlife.com
P.S. — The Simple Version section at the bottom of the post covers everything you can do in one Saturday afternoon for under $200. Start there if the full system feels like too much right now.