Word: heated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nearby overdone roast can set it off. Easy to install, the bowl-shaped sensors can be simply plugged into house current. Even better, some are powered by batteries; these generally last a year and chirp insistently when they are running down. Smoke sleuths can be used in conjunction with heat detectors (cost: $100 plus for a complete system). Heat detectors are slower to sound a smoke alarm and are used mainly in closed areas such as basements and garages, where a quick heat buildup is likely. Says Fire Marshall Rex Jordon of Olympia, Wash.: "Heat 36 detectors are fine...
...federally sponsored study of the "chance of escape after alarm" in several deliberately ignited homes showed that one heat sensor in every room provided only an 11% escape potential, while one smoke detector at each level of the house gave an 89% chance of escape. Many states and cities now require smoke detectors in all houses and apartments before they are sold or resold. The Federal Government will not approve a VA or FHA new housing loan unless the structure has detectors; Montgomery County, Md., will require all homes to be equipped with the sensors by July 1, 1978. Most...
...understand that Harry is cleaning up his act? Perhaps. Or it may be that with some of the heat burned out of the law-and-order issue, Harry can be seen not as the instinctive fascist some once thought him but as an apolitical, job-oriented man whose impatience with the niceties of the law is motivated by frustration over the slenderness of his resources and the shakiness of his backing. That is not the sound of a protofascist mob chortling encouragement at the screen when Harry lets fly, but the voice of perfectly nice people happy to see Harry...
...wasn't until the heat went back up to normal, he said, that the ice in the frozen pipes melted and the water gushed...
Yesterday afternoon the thirteen broken radiators were removed and new ones were brought in, but before heat can be restored, a new pipe to the radiators must be installed...