If your main source of heating has gone off, then yes.
You shouldn't need to go to sleep with one running. Most folk have their heating go off at night, so if you have run your temporary heater through the day, or the evening, then you can put it off at night. And as your alternative heating, your only likely to be using it for a short time, as an alternative to nothing. But if a fan heater gives you the heebie jeebies, then you could also fall back on a convertor or oil filled radiator.
When we were peedie, our folks always made sure that there was a "plan B", for most things, not just heating. Back when I wer't lad, if there was any cash left over at the end of the week, an extra tin for the cupboard, packet of soup etc was bought and stashed away for a rainy day - Though back then, it was more likely a snowy day, and when the power could readily go off. As a fall back to the oil heating, there was a paraffin heater, and more latterly, a portable gas heater. Plan B for cooking was a 2 ring picnic stove with a 4.5 kg bottle of butane gas. When the power went off, out came the gas heater and cooker.
We have a lot less power cuts now, but they do happen. And having learned from my folks, we too have plans B and C for heating, cooking and lighting. And none were very expensive.
£12 from Halfords and runs on "aerosol cans" of gas that you can buy in your local ironmongers, assuming they haven't closed down. It'll heat water for hot drinks, washing or making a pot of soup. Don't set a pot or a kettle on top of it and it does a grand job at being a heater. Just try not and let the cat drape its tail over it.....
But I guess its the trend these days to blame The Council or The Government if something doesn't go to plan, and you are left without because you never made sure you had a Plan B should it ever be needed.
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