Make a working smoke alarm part of your home
Do not count on smelling smoke to wake you. Put a working alarm on your home-safety checklist.
Install a smoke alarm and keep it working.
Smoke alarms were reported absent in 24% of fatal fires in occupied US residential buildings.
Why consider it?
The USFA report describes reported fatal fires in occupied US residential buildings. The figure counts recorded alarm absence; alarm status was unknown for many other fires. It is descriptive, not an estimate of how much installing an alarm reduces death or a national fire projection. This source does not test an alarm-installation program.
Read the sources
Source grade B is reproduced from the original work. It does not establish suitability for everyone.
Original item: chapter 1, item 3 ↗Adaptation: Rewritten in English from the locked Chinese original; retained evidence grade and study limits. Effect sizes quoted from the cited source: no quantified effect of the proposed action is claimed; numbers, where present, are descriptive findings, study procedures or guidance parameters. China-specific statistics, legal rules and procedures omitted. r3 AI review: Intentionally focused on smoke alarms; no carbon-monoxide alarm effect is inferred from the smoke-alarm figure.
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