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The Foundation’s ‘Aquarium Test'
Why your smoke detector may go off when cooking toast but remains silent in deadly smoldering fires) (after the 20 second ad )
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The UL Letters

Can UL resolve this problem? Read ‘The UL Letters’:

Has UL Deceived YOU?:  Chicago_1

UL - Flawed Testing?:  Chicago_2

The UL Letters:  Chicago_3

Chicago_4:  Misleading Marketing?

Chicago_5:  ‘Operation Save-A-Life’

Chicago_6:  The Terri Stewart Story

Has UL Deceived YOU?: Chicago 1

UL - Flawed Testing?:  Chicago 2

The UL Letters:  Chicago 3

Chicago 4:  Misleading Marketing?

Chicago 5:  ‘Operation Save-A-Life’

Chicago 6:  The Terri Stewart Story

Drengenberg - UL: “We know if it’s a working smoke
 alarm, when the smoke hits that
 alarm, it will sound the alarm.”
John Drengenberg
Consumer Affairs Manager
Underwriters Laboratories
Bob Segall
Investigative Journalist
WTHR ‘13 Investigates’

Segall - ‘13 Investigates’: “That just doesn’t make sense . . . Is there any scientific explanation
 for why, in this real-world situation,
 we have smoke detectors not
 going off in a room full of smoke?”
Drengenberg - UL: “I really don’t know!”
UL’s Testing Under Investigation
‘UL Testing Questioned'

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‘UL Testing Questioned’

Watch this film on YouTube - 7 minutes
“In test, after test, after test, ‘13 Investigates’ and local fire
 departments have discovered, in rooms full of heavy smoke,
 ionization smoke alarms did not activate for a long time . . . 
 how did all the smoke alarms get one of these - a seal of
 approval from Underwriters Laboratories?”
Is UL’s Smoke Detector
‘Scientific Testing Flawed?
13 Investigates
UL Testing Questioned
Aug 2, 2007
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“...the nations largest smoke alarm manufacturers defend their ionization smoke alarms by simply pointing out they have been tested and approved
by Underwriters Laboratories.”
“If there’d have been a family in there they’d have died.
 So how did all the smoke alarms get one of these,
 a ‘Seal of Approval’ from Underwriters Laboratories?”
UL’s ‘Seal of Approval’


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