Fire chief says most smoke alarms may not detect smoke until it is too late.
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"Albany Fire Chief Marc McGinn says most smoke alarms in American
homes are nearly useless and put residents in danger - so he's on a
crusade to get them all swapped out for a cheap, better alternative."
"McGinn - armed with a cluster of independent research conducted since
the 1970s when the alarms hit the market and governments began urging
everyone to get them - says the ionization alarms are so inferior to
the photoelectric alarms that they are "deadly." Unlike
photoelectrics, ionizations were built primarily as flame detectors,
he says - and people need warning long before a fire gets to the flame
stage so they can flee, avoid fatal smoke inhalation or even react to
squelch the blaze."
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