Smoke Detectors
The Ionization Detector:
- Responds quickly to hot fires with little smoke .
- Is sometimes prone to false alarms .
The Photoelectric Detector:
- "Sees" smoke particles and responds well
to smoldering fires.
- Is less prone to false alarms .
General Information You Must Know...
- Replace your smoke detector when they are 10 years
old.
- There should be one detector outside every room where
someone sleeps
- There should also be at least one smoke detector
on each floor including the basement, regardless of whether some sleeps
on a particular floor.
- Test your detectors once a month.
- Test the batteries in every detector twice a year.
Usually when you change the clock in the fall and spring.
- Never "borrow" batteries from your smoke
detector. Your smoke detector cannot protect you if it doesn't have
a battery
- Whenever your detector sounds an alarm, everybody
in your home should evacuate using your escape plan.
