Photoelectric smoke alarms detect common home fires better
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Studies have shown that some smoke detectors sense the type of fires responsible for more damage and deaths in homes every year better than others.
Photoelectric smoke alarms:
- Much faster response to slow-smoldering type fires, both inside and outside the room the fire originates in.
- Much more immune to nuisance alarms caused by cooking odors.
- Much more sensitive to "aged” smoke.
- Slightly slower to respond to fast-flaming types of fires.
Ionization smoke alarms:
- Slightly faster response to fast-flaming type fires when placed in the room the fire originates in.
- Many times more susceptible to nuisance alarms caused by cooking odors, often prompting homeowners to disable the alarm.
- Slower to respond to larger smoke particle sizes typically associated with slow-smoldering type fires, and "aged” smoke.
Bottom line:
- Photoelectric smoke alarms detect slow-smoldering fires — the fires that cause the vast majority of fire fatalities annually — better than Ionization alarms. (NFPA and British studies)
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