Smoke Detectors Test: Who Passed and Who Failed
Published: Oct. 30, 2007 at 5:05 PM EDT|Updated: Nov. 1, 2007 at 6:34 PM EDT
Cleveland, OH - There's nothing more terrifying than hearing the sound of your smoke detector going off in the middle of the night.
In many cases during a housefire, you have only minutes to get your family out of your home safely. But one scenario with even more dire consequences is not hearing the alarm at all because the detector doesn't go off.
No matter how new your smoke detectors are, or how often you change the batteries, 19 Action News found that not all of them are not created equal.
When a housefire starts, every second counts. Yet we found one brand of smoke detector that didn't even go off until a full eight minutes after the fire started!