For one Palmyra, Tennessee, family, security means knowing they are protected from fire by a monitored alarm system. Lee and Cristina Szlosek left a comment on our website about their Monitronics security system and how it saved their lives. We called them for the whole story. These are Cristina’s words.
A fire that could have killed my family
“Monitronics saved my family from a fire that happened October 21, 2008, at 2:31 a.m. The house we lived in had a fireplace and we lit it up and went to bed. Around two in the morning, the smoke alarm went off and that’s what woke us up. I would have slept right through the fire without the alarm because I’m such a heavy sleeper. We went in the living room and there was smoke filling the room. It turns out the fire was between the walls.
“I thought my husband was joking with me—I was half asleep. But he was not. That fire was real. We got the two kids and the dog and got outside—Monitronics had called the fire department already. When we walked around the house we could see the flames had already melted the vinyl siding. It was a close call.
“If we wouldn’t have had that smoke detector and you all monitoring it, the Palmyra Tennessee Fire Department would have been picking up bodies that night. I don’t want to be in the house without an alarm system after something like that. You guys saved our lives.”
