Smoke alarms do save lives

Different designs for smoke detectors.
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Smoke Detectors Smoke alarm facts.
Smoke Detectors Installation and maintenance tips.
How to dispose of your Smoke Alarm.
Smoke Detectors A life-saving test:  check your smoke alarms regularly.
Smoke Detectors Types of smoke alarms.
Smoke Detectors The (NFPA's) position on smoke alarms.
Smoke Detectors The (IAFC) position on smoke alarms.
          
Carbon Monoxide Dectectors.
Carbon Monoxide Dectector Facts.
Placement of CO2 Dectectors.
Source & maintenance tips for CO2 Dectectors.

Smoke Dectector Videos
The Smoke Alarm Show
Children sleeping through smoke alarms

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Smoke alarms are the residential fire safety success story of the past quarter century.  Smoke alarm technology has been around since the 1960s.  But the single-station, battery-powered smoke alarm we know today became available to consumers in the 1970s, and since then, the home fire death rate has been reduced by half. Most states have laws requiring them in residential dwellings.

Working smoke alarms are essential in every household.  It is necessary to practice home fire drills to be certain everyone is familiar with the smoke alarm signal, and to determine if there are any obstacles to a quick and safe evacuation (including the inability for some to awaken to the smoke alarm signal).

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Facts & figures


Source: NFPA's "U.S. Experience with Smoke Alarms and Other Fire Detection/Alarm Equipment."

Smoke Alarms in U.S. Home Fires a National Fire Protection Association Report (2005-2009)

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Installation and maintenance tips

How to dispose of your Smoke Alarm correctly.

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A life-saving test:  check your smoke alarms regularly

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Sensing systems
Most smoke alarms use one of two common sensing systems for detecting a fire.

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Smoke Detectors / Ionization vs. photoelectric.

Smoke detectors are suitable for:

Heat detectors are suitable for:

Flame detectors are suitable for:

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The National Fire Protection Accociations (NFPA) position on smoke alarms.

International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC)

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Different designs for Carbon monoxide (CO2) detectors.
                           

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Facts & figures

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Placement of carbon monoxide detectors.

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Source's of carbon monoxide detectors and maintenance tips.

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