6 Types of Smoke Detectors for Your Home
Working smoke detectors save lives. Here's what you need to know about these important safety devices. Look around your home. Do you see multiple smoke alarms? At a minimum, you should have one on every level of your house, one in every bedroom and one near all sleeping areas (even if that’s not a bedroom). Working smoke detectors (alarms) make the difference between life and death in a home fire. “Today’s home fires burn faster than ever,” according to Susan McKelvey, communications manager for the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). “In a typical home fire, you may have as little as two minutes to escape safely from the time a smoke alarm sounds.” In the event of a fire, homes with working smoke alarms suffer fewer than than half the deaths as those without them, according to the NFPA. A note about terminology: You may hear, or use, “smoke detector” and “smoke alarm” interchangeably. Technically, smoke detectors only detect smoke, then send a signal to a building’s fire alarm system. The standalone units we have in our homes are smoke alarms, which detect smoke and sound an alarm, all in one device. McKelvey identifies two types of smoke alarms: ionization and photoelectric. They work on different types of fires, so the NFPA recommends buying alarms that combine these two technologies. First, I’ll explain how smoke alarms work, then take you through the different ways you can employ these life-saving devices.
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