because my family and I are alive. we had a fire in our apt on friday eve! the power went out in the neighborhood so we lit a bunch of smokeless storm candles...my wife put some in what she thought was a ceramic mug but was really plastic, we all fell asleep....and then...the detector woke us up, the candles had melted the mug and lit the top shelf of a bookcase on fire, and the wall with it!!! It was scary as shit waking up, all disoriented, to flames and smoke. Fortunately we have an extinguisher which was put to good use. If we had slept only a minute or two more, who knows what might have happened.
