The Aquarium Test
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Governor Douglas Signs Vermont’s Mandatory
Photoelectric Smoke Alarm Legislation
Barre City Fire Department Aquarium Tests
May 2008, Vermont, USA
The ‘Aquarium Test’ was first developed by The World Fire Safety Foundation in 2006 and made into a film which was renamed ‘Smoke Alarm Recall’ and, as at 25 April, 2011, is in its 56th revision. The Aquarium Test was designed to show fire fighters the inherent defects with ionization smoke alarms and inspire them to conduct their own full-scale tests. Numerous Aquarium and full-scale tests have been performed by Fire Departments across the USA. In these real-world, full-scale tests the ionization alarms performed as in the Aquarium Tests - they failed to sound a timely warning in smouldering fires. The Barre City, Vermont Fire Department was America’s first Fire Department to perform an Aquarium Test.
See below how the Aquarium Test inspired Barre City fire fighters to bring about new, photoelectric-specific smoke alarm legislation . . .home.htmllegislation.htmllegislation.htmlshapeimage_15_link_0shapeimage_15_link_1shapeimage_15_link_2
from an Aquarium Test to new legislation in 22 months
See why your smoke alarms may go off when
cooking toast but remain silent in deadly home fires
The Original Aquarium Test
Smoke Alarm Recall (formerly The Aquarium Test)
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