 People say it happens fast. I didn't imagine how fast. I think it was just after 1230-ish that I heard alarm sound. I thought it was our clock alarm. So I sat up, looked at the clock, there was no numbers on it, that's when I realised the power was off, realised it was a smoke alarm, come running out and headed down the corridor and there's already flames coming through ducted heating duct. I know people say smoke alarms save lives, they do because my family are there because of us waking up. I don't want to imagine what the alternative looks like. If we had had a better system in place, it could have been a less destructive story. That's the house but we got out of life. We're here today to launch the CFA and Fire Rescue Victoria campaign, Silence is Deadly and it's a message to all Victorians about having smoke alarms, working smoke alarms, having them installed in the right place and also importantly having them interconnected. Fire services in Victoria responded to over 32,000 residential fires in the last 10 years so it can happen to anybody at any time. 18 Victorians die every year because of house fires and a lot of those are shown that they don't have working smoke alarms so we really encourage everyone not just to have working smoke alarms, that's really important but if you can get interconnected smoke alarms because if one smoke alarm goes off the rest detect the same and they all activate at the same time.