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DEADLY Ionization Smoke Alarms Exposé Background & Tour Highlights - 2 of 3
 
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The Daily Liberal | Dubbo, NSW
05-06 May, 2011 | Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia
Peter Cannon, President VFFA (4th from left) and Peak Hill Volunteer Fire FIghters after watching ‘Smoke Alarm Recall’ (see insert)
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Watching ‘Smoke Alarm Recall - The FireChief’s Challenge’
Kurrajong Heights Fire Fighters
05 May, 2011 | Kurrajong Heights, New South Wales, Australia
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‘Smoke Alarms’ | Lead story, Channel Nine, 6pm News, QLD | 10 May, 2011
“. . .the ionization alarms have failed* Australian
 Standards since 1993. The code was improved
 but never adopted allowing manufacturers to
 keep selling them.”
“There are many people in graves
 today in Australia because they
 thought that they had the right
 type of alarm when they didn’t.”
Chief McGinn
Darren Curtis, Senior Reporter, Channel 9 News
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. 10 May, 2011
Darren Curtis
Marc McGinn, Retired Fire Chief
Albany, California, USA
10 May, 2011 | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
‘Will Your Fire Alarm Save You?’ ABC Radio Interview | 05 May, 2011 http://blogs.abc.net.au/queensland/2011/05/will-your-fire-alarm-save-you.html?site=brisbane&program=612_morningshapeimage_23_link_0
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Madonna King award-winning journalist, commentator and authorhttp://today.ninemsn.com.au/meettheteam/326589/madonna-kingshapeimage_26_link_0
04 May, 2011 | Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Chief McGinn warning about the ionization type of smoke alarms in almost all Australian & US homes

“This is not about recommending
  one over the other, it's about
  denouncing, it's about recall,
  its about banning the ionization
  technology and only having the
  photoelectric technology."

“. . . the smoke alarms we rely on
       to save us may be useless.”

‘Today Tonight’ | Australian National Current Affairs Program Filmed: 03 May, 2011 | Aired 08 June, 2011: Australia | Ireland | Italy | UK | USA http://www.7perth.com.au/view/today-tonight-articles/heaters-a-z_20110608165240/http://uk.news.yahoo.com/video/7tt-3972445/exploding-heater-alert-25505306.htmlhttp://it.notizie.yahoo.com/video/yaustralia-240893/exploding-heater-alert-25505306.htmlhttp://uk.news.yahoo.com/video/7tt-3972445/exploding-heater-alert-25505306.htmlhttp://news.yahoo.com/video/us-15749625/25505306shapeimage_31_link_0shapeimage_31_link_1shapeimage_31_link_2shapeimage_31_link_3shapeimage_31_link_4
03 May, 2011 | Sydney, Queensland, Australia
Linda Buchan - Home Fire Survivor
& Fire Safety Campaigner

“I woke up with flames literally.

burning me and then I tried.
to get to my sister but I.
just didn't make it . . .”

Seven |  Australia’s highest rating television network.

05 May, 2011 | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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Video footage - COMING SOON
“In commercial buildings you have to put photo-electric smoke alarms
 in so why do we have one standard for commercial buildings and a
 completely separate standard for our homes where we sleep, it's insane.”
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“. . .the ionization alarms have failed*
Australian Standards since 1993.”
*Unable to pass the scientific tests for visible smoke