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Smoke alarms can be extremely annoying. But they save lives.

I don't know if my smoke alarm in my flat is hard-wired, or battery operated. I don't know if it's connected to the other alarms in the house.

I don't know if it's photoelectric, or ionisation, or when it was last tested.

Existing smoke alarms do not need to be replaced if they are working, and have not passed the expiry date. Smoke alarm technical requirements PDF, 1.5 MB Smoke alarm best practice recommendations from Fire and Emergency New Zealand (external link) Consumer NZ research showing which smoke alarms respond fastest (external link).

By Herb Trix. Apr 12, 2021. For the next month, homeowners in Davenport can get a free smoke alarm from the Red Cross, and installed by the fire department. Public Education Officer Lieutenant Zach Soliz says this is the third year the department has worked with the Red Cross on the program called Sound the Alarm. The reason is simple.
A sleeping space door (the New Zealand Fire INSTALLATION OF SMOKE ALARMS IN HOUSES AS SPECIFIED IN THE BUILDING CODE CLAUSE F7 WARNING SYSTEMS Placement of smoke alarms in a single-storey 3-bedroom dwelling. Where a house has more than one storey there must be a smoke alarm on each level. Installing one in each bedroom is also recommended.

I do know that it's highly effective at detecting a near-perfectly-crispy piece of Vogel's and at waking our entire household at 3am for no apparent reason. For most of us, losing a home or loved one to house fire is an unimaginable nightmare. It's also a preventable one.

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It's winter — Kiwis are using a lot more flammable electric blankets and heaters than usual, so this is a friendly reminder from the good folks at Fire and Emergency New Zealand to keep yourselves safe:

DON'T ASSUME YOUR ALARM WORKS

'Push the button' is a lyric The Pussycat Dolls graced us with in the early 2000s. It's also how we need to test our alarms.

When you're asleep, you lose your sense of smell. Trial the test button on your alarms and make sure their sound is loud and clear. Use the end of a broom if hard to reach.

In an ideal world, Fire and Emergency would like you to do this once a month, to dust your alarms twice a year, and make sure to replace them entirely after a decade.

The world's not always ideal, but if you can't remember the last time checked your alarms⁠ — rally the family troops tonight (for a whole five minutes) and get it done.

PHOTOELECTRIC OR IONISATION?

Smoke alarms use either photoelectric or ionisation sensors to detect smoke. After conducting a thorough study in 2018, watchdog Consumer NZ called for all ionisation smoke alarms to be pulled from the shelves.

They tested four ionisation alarms and found they only detected fast flames, but did not pick up on slow burning fires and smoke. Photoelectric smoke alarms are much better at detecting slow smouldering fires, which may burn for hours before flames actually erupt⁠ — the kind of fires likely to happen while you're sound asleep.

Because we don't change alarms for years at a time, you may well still be using ionisation alarms in your home. Unsure what kind you've got? Ionisation alarms are the ones that carry a radiation symbol.

If you rent your home, it's worth knowing that the Residential Tenancies Act requires all new alarms landlords install to be photoelectric with a long-life battery.

ONE IS NOT ENOUGH

Smoke alarms can't detect smoke through closed doors. 'We recommend having a smoke alarm in every sleeping area, hallway and living area,' said Roxanne Hilliard, Fire and Emergency's National Manager of Risk Reduction.

'Most children are woken by smoke alarms, particularly if the alarms are in their bedrooms. However, young children still need adults help to evacuate a house fire and ensuring adults are alerted to smoke or fire means they can help their children get out safely.'

MUM'S VOICE

Last year, US scientists found children were three times more likely to be woken by a recording of their mother's voice, than they are to the beeping of a standard alarm.

Dr Gary Smith of Nationwide Children's hospital in Ohio and colleagues compared four different smoke alarms on 176 children between five and 12 years old. One tested alarm was a standard high-pitched beep; the other three were recordings of each child's mother saying different warnings.

The Journal of Pediatrics concluded beeping alarms don't wake children under the age of 12 very well at all, though they were unsure why.

It's a smoke alarm's job to wake adults, and adults' job to wake children.

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However, older children are potentially able to save themselves from fire if they can be woken. Scientists are now investigating if a generic woman's voice can be just as effective, and if the gender of the voice matters.

'If we can get something that can be generically developed and just taken straight out of the packet and is effective for children in this age range then that is our goal,' said Dr Gary Smith told The Guardian.

'We recognise recent research highlights that alternative methods may be better for alerting some children to fire,' said Hilliard. 'We'll continue to keep up to date with developments around the world regarding the best ways to wake children in the event of a fire.'

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