The Aquarium Test
"My smoke alarm's fine, it goes off when I'm cooking / it's hard-wired."
Bob Segall, Award-Winning U.S. Investigative Reporter Performing the WFSF's
'Aquarium Test' on Indiana TV. | WTHR's 'Deadly Delay' T.V. series
July 2007, Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.A.
"I Really Don't Know"
WTHR's website and You Tube video show full-scale, scientific smoke alarm tests by Texas A & M University.
When Bob Segall asked U.L.'s John Drengenburg why the ionization alarms did not go off at the Texas A & M tests, when the test room was full of thick, toxic smoke, Dregenburg replied, "I really don't know."
Common Smoke Alarm Myths Explained
For Fire Fighters & Fire Officials
Investigating Smoke Alarm Effectiveness in Fatal Fires
by Joseph M. Fleming & Vytenis (Vyto)Babrauskas
Fire Engineering Magazine | July 2015
When the issue of smoke alarms and fire investigation
comes up we are reminded of Mark Twain's wisdom,
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure but it just ain't so."
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