CBS ‘Deadly Smoke
Detectors’ Exposé
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Ver 2.7 - 13 June, 2011
Jennifer Mayerle
Award-winning Journalist
Why has CBS declared the smoke alarms in almost all US homes to be “deadly”?
The Atlanta Fire Department is promoting First Alert smoke alarms. First Alert Inc is one of four defendants in a proposed national class action lawsuit which states:
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Deputy Chief Jay Fleming
Boston Fire Department, MA, USA
“ionization-only smoke detectors . . .
are slow to warn, if they warn at all
of smoldering fires which typically
occur while occupants are sleeping.”
1. Do Fire Departments and City Councils have a Duty of Care to warn consumers about the dangerous defects of ionization detectors?
2. Are Fire Departments being used by manufacturers to legitimise ionization and combination ionization/photoelectric smoke detectors by giving them to the public for free?
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Dean Dennis & Doug Turnbull
Fathers For Fire Safety, Ohio
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“Massachusetts and Vermont have changed their laws to require a photoelectric smoke detector
and this summer the Albany Fire Department in California changed their Ordnance to require
only photoelectric detectors. . .
. . . they even put the name of one
of our stories on their trucks,
Replace YOUR
“Deadly Smoke Detectors”
Now!
to warn people about the ionization detector.”
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