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Every month Test your alarm whether it is battery powered or hard-wired by pressing the button on your smoke alarm and keeping it pressed down. The alarm should sound. If your alarm has no button, it is outdated and must be replaced. Follow the manufacturer's instructions on testing and maintaining your alarm.

Every month Test your alarm whether it is battery powered or hard-wired by pressing the button on your smoke alarm and keeping it pressed down. The alarm should sound. If your alarm has no button, it is outdated and must be replaced.

The smoke detector was actually created by accident by a Swiss scientist, Walter Jaeger. Jaeger was attempting to invent a device which could detect poison gas. The idea was that the gas would enter the alarm system, and alter an electrical current inside, thereby setting off the alarm.

Every month: Smoke alarms should be tested (by pressing the test button) to ensure the battery and the alarm work. Every six months: Smoke alarms should be cleaned with a vacuum cleaner. This will remove any dust or particles that could prevent the smoke alarm from working properly.

Almost 40 years of research has shown that the most popular smoke alarm which is in 90% of homes in America is failing at an alarming rate.

NFPA's Dan Doofus reminds you to have enough smoke alarms in your home, test them monthly, and replace them every 10 years.

A photoelectric smoke alarm will sound off very early with this situation, but an ionization alarm won't sound off until it's way too late, right as the couch is about to burst into flames. Ionization alarms have about a 55% failure rate to save people in home fires.

The US National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) have issued NFPA Standard 72, National Fire Alarm and Signalling Code, which states that all smoke alarms (including alarms that use 10 year batteries, and those that are hard wired) should be replaced when they are ten years old, or sooner if they don't respond ...