However only 29 of americans regularly sleep with their bedroom door closed.
Fire safety bedroom door closed.
A firefighter has revealed why children should sleep with their bedroom doors closed at night.
Keeping your bedroom door closed at night significantly increases your chances of surviving a household fire.
With the advent and increased use of fire smoke alarms some problems can arise from sleeping with a door shut.
While many children like sleeping with their door slightly ajar ex chief james felton jr warned how.
So far the close before you doze campaign is working.
If a bedroom door is closed the smoke produced by the fire may not reach the smoke alarm depending on where it is located.
Worse over half of adults sleep with their door open under the mistaken belief that it keeps them safer in case of a fire.
Research proves a closed door can mean the difference between 1 000 degress and 100 degrees in the event of a fire.
Other fire safety tips.
Take it down a notch during a fire a closed door can keep carbon monoxide levels at 1 000 ppm verses 10 000 ppm when a door is left open.
Fire safety issues that could occur when sleeping with the door closed.
Most people sleep with their bedroom door open according to a recent survey.
My first piece of advice is sleep with the bedroom door closed kerber continues.
Fire safety experts are urging people to close their bedroom doors before they go to sleep saying the simple task can potentially save lives in the event of a fire.
If there is a fire there is no time to act something that came up again and again in ul fsri s fire safety research was just how much safer the simulated occupant would be when they were behind a closed door.