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THE ALARMING TRUTH

How Flawed Smoke Alarm Standards have Led to

Tens of Thousands of Needless Injuries and Deaths

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Chapters 26 - 29  |  2020 Onwards

Chapter

Date

Content

26

2020

Aug

'IONIZATION Smoke Alarms Are DEADLY'

WFSF's update report about industry attempts to block photoelectric-only legislation

27

2020

Sep

S.A.A.M. - World First: 'Disruptive Technology'

New, 'disruptive technology' fire detection devices coming soon.

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2021

Aug

29

2022

June

Stand-Alone Ionization Technology Eliminated

Stand-alone Ionization technology eliminated with new U.S. smoke alarm standard.

Chapter 26

2020 | August

IONIZATION Smoke Alarms Are DEADLY

The Alarming Truth

by Chief Marc McGinn | August 2010

WFSF 2020 Update

"When we’re asked why the public hasn’t been warned, after more than
twenty years of fighting this campaign, we can give an authoritative answer. . .”

'A Message from the World Fire Safety Foundation' | page 3, para 3

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Chapter 27

2020 | September

Smart Ambient Air Monitor (SAAM)

'Disruptive Detection Technology'

The World's Most Innovative Smoke, Fire, Air Quality & Gas Monitoring Device

Chapter 28

2021 | August

WFSF Chairman Interview

August 2021

COMING SOON

The Ongoing Failure to Warn about Ionization Alarms
Puts the Public and our Firefighter's Lives at Risk

Chapter 29

2022 | June

Legislation - U.S.A.:
Stand-Alone Ionization Technology Eliminated
The stand-alone ionization technology used in most smoke alarms
globally is finally eliminated with UL
's new smoke alarm standard.

Smoke Alarms Get Smarter in 2020

Note: Due to Covid-19 new Standard release date extended to 30 June 2022

Underwriters Laboratories (UL) is the world's largest standards testing organization.

 

New Smoke Alarm Standard
After over 40 years of warning about the inherent danger with stand-alone ionization technology, UL has finally released a legitimate (corrected) smoke alarm standard. Because of the legitimate smoldering fire test, stand-alone ionization alarms are unable to pass this new test.
 see 'UL Sued' below.

 

Australian & N.Z. Scientific Testing Exposes UL's Flawed Standard

UL's new smoke alarm standard vindicates the decades of work by campaigners and fire safety advocates around the world who have repeatable warned about UL's flawed testing.

Consumer New Zealand & Australian Government (CSIRO) scientific testing proves

that the existing stand-alone ionization alarms in millions of homes around the world may fail to alert occupants early enough to escape from smoldering fires.

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The Forty Year Battle to Correct Flawed Smoke Alarm Standards

1976 - Richard Patton distributes 'The Smoke Detector Fraud' report to over 3,000 fire chiefs warning about flawed US standard.

1999 - Washington Post publishes award-winning ionization exposé, 'How Safe Are Products Bearing the UL Mark?'
2005 - Feb: WFSF Warning on TV New Zealand: "...the standards themselves are faulty."

2005 - Oct: WFSF Chairman's Letters to UL warning that their UL217 smoke alarm standard is flawed:

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2010 - UL's flawed smoke alarm standard used by Richard Patton in testimony for first US cities photoelectric-only legislation

2011 - UL Sued: UL settles out of court after allegations that it was "wanton or negligent" with their smoldering fire tests.

2013 - WFSF Report: 'Can Australian and U.S. Smoke Alarm Standards be Trusted?'

2016 - New Zealand introduces world's first, nationwide, photoelectric smoke alarm legislation.

Series of WFSF Letters (sent in 2005) Warning
UL about their Flawed Smoke Alarm Standard
Note: Letters Sent from WFSF's Production Company - MC2E Productions

"The world is a dangerous

  place to live; not because

  of the people who are evil,

  but because of the people

  who do nothing about it."

Albert Einstein

"Ignorance, allied with..
power, is the most.. ferocious enemy..
 justice can have."

James A Baldwin

"The only thing..

necessary for the.. triumph of evil is that..

good men do nothing."

Edmund Burke