Are Your Smoke Alarms Safe?
There Are Two Residential Smoke Alarm Technologies
Ionization
Not Fit For Purpose
Photoelectric
Highly Effective
In Most Homes
Contain Radioactive Material
Excessive False Alarms
In Most Commercial Buildings
No Radioactive Material
Few False Alarms
22 Jan 2018 ~ 14 August 2018
ABC Special Investigation
Fire & Rescue New South Wales (FRNSW)
Smoke Alarm Research "Flawed & Dangerous"
Safety advocates say lives being put at risk by
Fire & Rescue NSW flip-flop on smoke alarms
"Greg Mullins, FRNSW's
previous Commissioner,
was unequivocal in his
stance.
Not only should consumers
have photoelectric alarms,
but ionization alarms
should be banned."
Adrian Butler & Karl Westwell,
Co-Founders, WFSF
QLD, Australia | 8 Sept 2018
Erin Yarwood (Matt's Fiancée), Aluna & Celebrity Chef, Matt Golinski
"...he had working alarms...
but they simply didn't work."
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9 July 2018
Why this Common Safety Device Could be Banned from Homes
Safety experts calling for the ionization smoke alarms in most QLD homes to be banned.
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9 July 2018
The CSIRO has been Taken to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal
Pressure mounts on the CSIRO to release sensitive ionization smoke alarm test data.
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2 July 2018
An Important Message from the
World Fire Safety Foundation
Adrian Butler
"Australia's Ralph Nader"
Former Full Time Fire Fighter
Chairman, Co-Founder
World Fire Safety Foundation
15 November 2018
Ionization Smoke Alarms - 'The Alarming Truth'
CSIRO Continues to Fail to Release Test Data
Greetings from Australia
Australian Government (CSIRO) scientific test data proves ionization smoke alarms are dangerously defective. Australia's smoke alarm standard is flawed and lives will be lost unless it is brought into line with the new U.S. standard (due 2020).
Hard to believe? Examine the ABC's seven part investigation above or see 60 Minutes' exposé 'The Alarming Truth' below.'
Still not convinced? See why NSW former Fire Commissioner warned that the ionization type of smoke alarm in most U.S., Australian and New Zealand homes should be banned.
Discover the truth then replace your ionization smoke alarms with photoelectrics so you can properly protect your family.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Adrian Butler & Karl Westwell
Co-Founders
World Fire Safety Foundation
Karl Westwell
Director of Research
Co-Founder
World Fire Safety Foundation
World Fire Safety Foundation
15 Kurara Court, Narangba, Queensland, Australia 4504
Founded March 2000 | Self (privately) funded | Does not sell anything | Does not solicit or accept donations
'The Alarming Truth'
“Why the smoke alarms in your home may not save you.”
'THE ALARMING TRUTH'
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60 MINUTES
'Extra Minutes'
60 Minutes' Senate Inquiry Submission
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Extra Video Footage: David Isaac & Karl Stefanovic
Ionisation Smoke Alarms: The Hidden Truth
Australian Fire Brigades: Industry Politics are Wasting Time and Risking More Lives
Former Fire Commissioner* Wants
Ionization Smoke Alarms Banned
Channel 7 News | Feb 2016 | NSW Edition | 106 seconds
0:00 “The Fire Commissioner* says Australia’s most common
(ionization) smoke alarm should be banned.”
*After 39 years of service, FRNSW Commissioner and AFAC President Greg Mullins retired in 2017.
Upgrade on Smoke Detectors
Channel 10 News | Dec 2015 | 107 seconds
0:33 “The research that Commissioner Mullins has spoken about
quite definitively says that a photoelectric smoke alarm is better."
Adam Dalrymple, Director Fire Safety, Metropolitan Fire Brigade, Melbourne, Australia | Smoke Alarm Senate Hearing | Dec 2015
0:54 “Photoelectric detectors sense smoldering fires on average
30 minutes earlier than ionization detectors.”
Quote by David Isaac, Fire Protection Engineer, | Standard Australia FP002 Committee Member | Dec 2015
AUSTRALIAN SENATE SMOKE ALARM INQUIRY
Testimony & Submissions
Second Hearing - Parliament House, Canberra, ACT | 4 December 2015
Rebecca Le Tourneau - Producer, 60 Minutes Australia
"Industry Politics which are wasting time and risking more lives . . . Ensure the Australian
Building Codes Board takes it head out of the sand and mandates interconnected
photoelectric smoke alarms across Australia before the next family fire takes its next family."
Rebecca Le Tourneau, 60 Minutes Producer of the ionization smoke alarm exposé, 'The Alarming Truth' (see film below)
Rebecca Le Tourneau
Producer, 60 Minutes
60 Minutes' Submission > > >
David Isaac - Fire & Safety Technologies Pty Ltd
"The essence of the problem is that no manufacturer wants..
(or industry representative of a manufacturer wants) to admit,.
there is any performance problem with ionization smoke alarms."
David Isaac, Fire & Safety Technologies Pty Ltd | Australia's leading
fire safety expert | Standards Australia Committee FP002 member
David Isaac's Testimony > > >
David Isaac, Standards Australia Committee
*After 39 years of service, Australasia's most senior fire official, FRNSW Commissioner and Australasian Fire & Emergency Service Authorities Council President Greg Mullins, retired in
2017(Note: AFAC is the peak representative body for all Australian & New Zealand fire brigades)
"The main message is that only photoelectric smoke alarms should
be allowed . . . My personal view is ionization alarms should
be banned . . . and the standard itself (AS3786-1993) is flawed."
Greg Mullins - FRNSW Commissioner* | AFAC President
Commissioner Mullins, President AFAC
Commissioner Mullin's Testimony > > >
"The world is a dangerous
place to live; not because
of the people who are evil,
but because of the people
who do nothing about it."
Albert Einstein
"Ignorance, allied with..
power, is the most.. ferocious enemy..
justice can have."
James A Baldwin
"All that is required..
for evil to triumph .
is for good men..
to do nothing."
Edmund Burke