This morning I had a disturbing experience. At 11.00am the alarm at no.3, 11/11 sounded (now I can still hear it wailing). I rushed out of the house to look. The next door auntie looked at me through the fence and said something in Cantonese. By the time I went onto the road, the alarm had stopped. I was not sure whether it was the corner, no. 1 or no. 3’s alarm which had sounded.
So, I waited a while. Nobody turned up. Two corners were having a lot of workers all staring at me. By this time I had called security which sent a personnel slowly walking up the road. At the same time I called Michael Lian (owner of no.1) and he told me that he had not turned the alarm on.
The security guard and I rounded the houses mentioned several times but could not see anything! I commented to the guard that they should have reacted when they heard the alarm going off. Do you know what he said? That he was so far away!!
When the alarm went off again I knew that it was No. 3 making all the noise. So I called Mr. Chiam to contact the owner, I think it was a Mr. Tan who did the Taman’s Bantahan brochure for us. The security then made it a point to walk more frequently past the house mentioned.
Now the lesson learned here is:-
- There was no immediate response to the alarm.
- When I looked down the road there were quite a number of cars parked in and outside of houses and yet not one person except for myself and the grandma next door took any notice.
- The guard would not have come if I hadn’t called him on the handphone.
- The guard does not know how to react to the situation.
Another observation:
Not sounding too over cautious in our quest to ensure safety, many homes have secured galvanised zinc sheets under the roof/ some extra beams in between the originals. However these cost and the galvanised zinc sheets stymied air circulation. Any other method to secure our homes?
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I believe we need to put a guidelines and educate the residents to increase the level of awareness. It is the lack of awareness (or selfish) that makes us the targets.
ReplyDeleteThe home alarm guys are very unprofessional. I was trying to cut cost and thinking to use motion detector sensor at the roof top. I asked, have you done it in Nadia? He said yeah yeah yeah. But later on can't be sure where to fix, whether need to drill and pull the wire from ground floor or not. I was like :o I thought you done it before in Nadia??
ReplyDeleteAt the end, decided to spend some money galvanised zinc sheet.