IONIZATION Smoke Alarms Are DEADLY
The Alarming Truth
How flawed smoke alarm standards have
resulted in tens of thousands of injuries and deaths.
PART FOUR
Chapters 26 - 29 | 2020 Onwards
Chapter
Date
Content
26
2020
Aug
'IONIZATION Smoke Alarms Are DEADLY'
WFSF's update report about industry attempts to block photoelectric-only legislation
27
2020
Sep
S.A.A.M. - World First: 'Disruptive Technology'
New, 'disruptive technology' fire detection devices coming soon.
28
COMING SOON
WFSF Campaign - Queensland, Australia
WFSF campaign warning Queenslander's about 'deadly' ionization alarms.
29
2021
June
Ionization Unable to Pass New U.S. Standard
Ionization technology eliminated in new (legitimate) U.S. smoke alarm standard.
IONIZATION Smoke Alarms Are DEADLY
The Alarming Truth
by Chief Marc McGinn | August 2010
WFSF 2020 Update
"When we’re asked why the public hasn’t been warned, (most people don’t even know there are two completely different smoke alarm technologies), after more than twenty years of fighting this campaign, we can give an authoritative answer, i.e. “Because of over forty years of misinformation and the fear of litigation.”
'A Message from the World Fire Safety Foundation' | page 3, para 3
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Queensland, Australia Campaign
COMING SOON
Advising Not Warning - A Deadly Compromise
Queensland arguably has the world's best photoelectric-only legislation. Ionization alarms do not
comply with the 2017 legislation and are not sold in Queensland.
However, most authorities merely advise that photoelectric alarms are "better."
For legal and political reasons, and because most authorities do not know the facts, the public
have not been warned about the life-threatening defects with ionization alarms. Ionization alarms
have been scientifically proven, by Australian government (CSIRO) test data, independent
scientific tests by the New Zealand Consumer organization, and by legal precedent to be unable
to detect the critical, early smoldering stage of most fatal fires.
More:
1). Ionization Smoke Alarm Litigation
NB: Beasley Allen Law Firm won a landmark case using Australian Government (CSIRO) test data
to prove ionization smoke alarms are unsafe.
NB: Bruning Law won the world's largest jury verdict (U.S. $50M including $30M punitive damages)
against an ionization smoke alarm manufacturer: Gordon vs BRK Brands, Inc.)
2). WFSF '...Criminal Act Of Negligence?' Report warning about ionization smoke alarm litigation
when failing to disclose the known limitation of ionization smoke alarms to consumers.
The Ongoing Failure to Warn about Ionization Alarms
Puts the Public and our Firefighter's Lives at Risk
Legislation - U.S.A.:
Ionization Alarms Unable to Pass New U.S. Smoke
Alarm Standard with Legitimate Smoldering Fire Test
Ionization technology eliminated in new edition of U.S. smoke
alarm standard, i.e. UL217 8th edition - effective date 30 June 2021
Smoke Alarms Get Smarter in 2021
Underwriters Laboratories (UL) is the world's largest standards testing organization.
'UL Certified'
After 30 June 2021, to be 'UL Certified' smoke alarms must pass UL's new, legitimate smoldering fire tests. UL's existing (flawed) smoldering fire testing has allowed ionization alarms to be certified as safe when they are not - see 'UL Sued' below.
Australian & N.Z. Scientific Testing Exposes UL's Flawed Standard
Consumer New Zealand & Australian Government (CSIRO) scientific testing proves
that the existing ionization alarms in millions of homes around the world may fail to
alert occupants early enough to escape from smoldering fires.
World Fire Safety Foundation Comment:
The Forty Year Battle to Correct Flawed Smoke Alarm Standards
1976 - Richard Patton distributes 'The Smoke Detector Fraud' report to over 3,000 fire chiefs warning about flawed US standard.
1999 - Washington Post publishes award-winning ionization exposé, 'How Safe Are Products Bearing the UL Mark?'
2005 - Feb: WFSF Warning on TV New Zealand: "...the standards themselves are faulty."
2005 - Oct: WFSF Chairman's Letters to UL warning that their UL217 smoke alarm standard is flawed:
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2010 - UL's flawed smoke alarm standard used by Richard Patton in testimony for first US cities photoelectric-only legislation
2011 - UL Sued: UL settles out of court after allegations that it was "wanton or negligent" with their smoldering fire tests.
2013 - WFSF Report: 'Can Australian and U.S. Smoke Alarm Standards be Trusted?'
2016 - New Zealand introduces world's first, nationwide, photoelectric smoke alarm legislation.
Series of WFSF Letters (sent in 2005) Warning
UL about their Flawed Smoke Alarm Standard
Note: Letters Sent from WFSF's Production Company - MC2E Productions
"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
"The only thing..
necessary for the.. triumph of evil is that..
good men do nothing."
Edmund Burke