For example, she says we should throw out our electric alarm clocks or turn off that feature on our cell phones in favor of battery-powered clocks.

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Divisional Officer Jim Boyd of the Northern Ireland Fire Service, who was at the scene, said the elderly couple did have an electric powered smoke alarm but it was turned off.

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Plans are also afoot, according to Patton, to install an expensive high-tech electric perimeter fence with an intruder alarm.

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