Close Your Bedroom Door Before You Sleep—It Could Save Your Life

between rooms with open doors and rooms with closed ones. A hallway or an open-door bedroom can reach temperatures past 1,000°F, hot enough to melt plastic and cause instant respiratory damage. A bedroom behind a closed door, by contrast, often stays around a survivable 100°F.

Toxic gas. Carbon monoxide levels in a burning house climb fast. In rooms continue reading …