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Executive Summary:
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•“The Consumer Product Safety Commission conducted the Fire Incident Study to identify why smoke detectors fail to alarm in residential fires. Data were collected from 263 fires in 15 U.S. cities between April 1992 and February, 1993. Fourteen deaths, 33 injuries and $2.7 million in property loss occurred in these fires.”
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•“The study results indicated that about 60% of the detectors failed to alarm because they were disconnected from their power sources. Among those that were disconnected because occupants experienced problems with them, the reasons most often cited by occupants were that it “alarms too often” or that there were unwanted alarms related to cooking activities.”
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•“These studies indicate that in order to reduce deaths and injuries from residential fires, the number of working smoke detectors must be increased.”
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Nuisance Alarms
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Fire Incident Study
National Smoke Detector Project -
Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) January, 1995
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Let’s examine the Nuisance Alarm Problem.
This report was conducted by the Consumer Product and Safety Commission.
It states that 60% of detectors fail to alarm because they end up being disconnected due to unwanted alarms. In other words, nuisance alarms. Again remember that over 90% of smoke alarms installed in our homes are ionization alarms.
By the way, if you get on the Internet you will find numerous studies state that over 20% of all ionization detectors are disabled within the first year due to nuisance alarms.
The photoelectric disabling rate is around 4%.
This means if you gave everyone an ionization detector, in one years time, 20% of the population would be unprotected due to the nuisance alarm problem.
Why accept a 20% failure rate when there is a safe, affordable and available alternative?
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CPSC Fire Incident Study
National Smoke Detector Project
Source: CPSC, Fire Incident Study, National Smoke Detector Project, Jan 1995 Executive Summary, page iii
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