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Where there's smoke ... smoke alarms can sniff out smoke or flame, but few excel at detecting both.(Special Section: Home Fire Safety)
Smoke alarms can cut your chances of dying in an electrical or other house fire roughly in half. Yet our tests show that neither of the two major alarm types--ionization and photoelectric--provides complete protection. And even the few available hybrid models, which comprise both fire-sensing technologies, aren't ideal for all homes.
Ionization alarms ($10 and up), the most common, use a harmless amount of radioactive material to sniff out fire. They tend to react quickly to fast-flaming fires, like paper fires and those fed by flammable fluids. But they can be far slower to detect the smoky, slow-starting bedding and upholstery fires that often kill sleepers. ...
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