“Ionization detectors aren’t smoke
detectors, they’re fire detectors.”
The Hook’s smoke detector test used two of each type of
detector - ionization, photoelectric, and combination. One of
each was affixed to the ceiling inside the room where the fire
was set; another set of three was attached to the ceiling immediately outside a doorless opening inside the burn center.
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Inside Carter’s gutted apartment that was
fitted with two, hard-wired, functioning ionization detectors.
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Chief Fleming’s ‘Real-World’ Tests
In Washington Post’s award winning story ‘How Safe are Products Bearing the UL Mark?’ (Dec 1999), Chief Fleming said that whilst ionization smoke alarms may activate in UL’s labs they often fail to activate in ‘real world’ fires . . .
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ALARMING Most Smoke Detectors
Don’t Detect Deadly Smoke
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Chief Jay Fleming
Boston Fire Department
Chief Jay Fleming
Boston Fire Department
Chief Jay Fleming
Boston Fire Department
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ALARMING - Most Smoke Detectors Don’t Detect
Deadly Smoke
Cover Story - Smouldering Truth:
Ashley Mauter’s fight and a shocking
fact about smoke detectors
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Published April 17, 2008
A year after a fatal blaze on Lewis Mountain Road killed a young man and critically injured his girlfriend, the fire's other survivor has dropped a bombshell. Contrary to news reports immediately following the blaze, the man insists that a smoke detector in his apartment was working that night and awakened him-- it just didn't awaken him in time to give his sleeping friends enough time to escape. This new information contradicts the conventional wisdom that a working smoke detector could have saved everyone, and one fire official has a theory why . . .
Ashley Mauter, the surviving
Lewis Mountain Road victim,
knows the terror and pain of
a fire all too well.
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