CBS ‘Deadly Smoke
Detectors’ Exposé
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Award-winning CBS journalist, Jennifer Mayerle has covered numerous
fire fatalities. In October 2009 after three sisters died in a home protected
by a functioning ionization smoke detector, local fire department officials recommended the installation of ‘working’ smoke detectors.
After reading the story about the three sisters, Boston Fire Department’s
Deputy Chief Jay Fleming contacted CBS to inform them that the ionization
type of smoke detectors in most American homes will not safely detect the
type of fire that most commonly kills.
In February 2010, after meeting with Chief Fleming in Boston, Mayerle
stated that despite covering deadly fires for the past ten years, that she,
like most reporter’s and members of the general public, had no idea that
there were different types of smoke detectors!
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Jennifer Mayerle
Award-winning Journalist
Fire Departments and the US Government under fire about ionization smoke detectors
CBS ‘Deadly Smoke Detectors’ Exposé
Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.
CBS Atlanta News ask the Atlanta Fire Department some tough questions.
Why have more than 10,000 “deadly” ionization smoke detectors been given to the public (mostly to low-income and high-risk areas) while almost 5,000 photoelectric smoke detectors have sat in storage?
Jennifer Mayerle asking the AFD why they distributed over
10,000 ionization detectors while 4,800 photoelectrics sat in storage.
Free Smoke Alarm Programs
Many Fire Departments, have free smoke alarm programs, such as:
- Atlanta’s Smoke Alarm Program ASAP,
Many give-away programs are sponsored
by the world’s largest smoke alarm manufacturers.
The Atlanta Fire Department is promoting First Alert smoke alarms. First Alert Inc is one of four defendants in a proposed national class action lawsuit which states:
Mark Jackson, the public health advisor with the CDC claims both ionization and photoelectric smoke alarms will give equal time for people to react and get out of a fire.
What did CBS say about Jackson’s claims?
“That’s not true.”
MJ: “They both will give you equal time to react and get out of a fire.”
CBS: “. . .we’ve shown you in our tough questions test that’s not true.”
see page 5
- - - - - - - - - - More Evidence - - - - - - - - - -
- See: ‘Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro -- Proposed Class Action Law Suit’
- See: Indiana’s, WTHR TV series -- ‘Deadly Delay’
- See: ‘Recommending, Selling or Installing Ionization Smoke Alarms, A Criminal Act of Negligence?’
- See: ‘Closing the Deadly Loophole in Australia’s Flawed Smoke Alarm Standard’
“. . . if we would switch to
photoelectric technology, or
detectors which included
photoelectric technology, we
could reduce fire deaths in
this country easily by a third
and that would account to
about a thousand people.”
As part of the investigation, Mayerle traveled to Boston to test smoke detectors
with Boston Fire Department’s Deputy Chief, Jay Fleming, one of America’s top
smoke detectors experts. Fleming said . . .
Deputy Chief Jay Fleming, Boston Fire Department, MA, USA
“If we would switch to photoelectric technology . . .
we could reduce fire deaths in this country easily by a third.”
see page 8
see page 12 & 13
09 Oct, 2009: Three Sisters Pass Away in Fatal Duluth Fire
11 Oct, 2009: Family Fire Tragedy
14 Oct, 2009: Remembering Three Sisters Who Died After Fire
05 Feb, 2010: Which Smoke Detector Could Save Your Life?
08 Feb, 2010: Smoke Detector Testing
11 Feb, 2010: Tough Questions About Deadly Smoke Detectors For CDC, Fire Departments
12 Feb, 2010: Homeowner Contacts CBS ATlanta After Tough Questions Investigation
11 Feb, 2010: Smoke Detector Investigation Hits State Capital
17 Feb, 2010: Tough Questions for Atlanta Fire Department
02 Sep, 2010: Atlanta Fire Department Won’t Respond To Tough Questions Investigation
Videos: ‘Deadly Smoke Detectors’
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“ionization-only smoke detectors . . .
are slow to warn, if they warn at all
of smoldering fires which typically
occur while occupants are sleeping.”
Two “Tough Questions” from the
World Fire Safety Foundation:
1. Do Fire Departments have a Duty of Care to warn consumers about the dangerous defects of ionization detectors?
2. Are Fire Departments being used by manufacturers to legitimise ionization and combination ionization/photoelectric smoke detectors by giving them to the public for free?
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