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David Isaac
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S U M M A R Y & C O N T E N T S
Photoelectric Smoke Alarms Save More Lives
S a fer For You Safer For Fire Fighter sTM
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Ionization
Photoelectric
Failure to Activate
Significant
Insignificant
Significant
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Recommended
by Fire Fighters
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Safer for
Fire Fighters TM
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Disposal
Radioactive
Not Radioactive
Affordable
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Price
Located
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Commercial
Buildings
Harold Schaitberger
General President, IAFF
Washington DC, USA | Oct 2008
www.SmokeAlarmWarning.org/wfsf
Contents
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Greg Mullins
AFSM
4. Environmental/Disposal Problem
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That house had ionization alarms. But theyd been
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Photoelectric smoke alarms dont have the same
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Saving Lives
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lives by spreading this message to your family and friends
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you know (page 10).
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President, Volunteer Fire Fighters
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Adrian Butler & Karl Westwell
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Co-Founders | NSW, Australia | 13 November 2014
60 Minutes Special Investigation
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Greg Mullins AFSM | President, AFAC
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Commissioner, Fire & Rescue NSW - One
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The photoelectric alarms; the tests are
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showing they react faster, particularly in
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smoldering fires which are the main type
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your family out faster.
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WIN TV News | Dubbo, NSW, Australia
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Trailer
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Why the smoke alarm in
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David Isaac Interview | 2 Minutes
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David Isaac | Fire Safety Expert & Standards Australia Committee
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Member FP002 (for smoke detection & warning system standards)
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Karl Stefanovic Interview
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Karl Stefanovic | Gold Logie-Winning
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Breakfast Program
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W h y Wo n t t h e A B C B C h a n g e t h e C o d e?
In 2007 - 2008 Standards Australia made the needed revisions to
Australia's flawed smoke alarm standard. However, why is the Australian
Building Codes Board (ABCB) continuing to block the adoption of the
revised standard into the Building Code of Australia (BCA - the Code)?
In February 2007, the World Fire Safety Foundation sent hard copies of its
C.A.N. Report by registered mail to 11 ABCB senior staff and all 15 Board
Members. Their names and positions are on page 14 of the report.
The report supported Standard Australia's second attempt to have the ABCB
adopt Australias amended smoke alarm standard (AS3786-1993) into the
Building Code of Australia (BCA). The report provided compelling evidence that
ionization alarms are unsafe. It also warned of legal implications for the ABCBs
ongoing failure to adopt Standards Australias critical amendment into the BCA.
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In March 2007, despite The CAN Report and Standard Australia's second Preliminary Impact Assessment
providing the ABCB with overwhelming scientific evidence and legal precedents, the ABCB wrote to the World
Fire Safety Foundation (see below) stating the problem was not clear to the Board. Consider the following:
FA C T: Australian Government (CSIRO) test data since 1993 show ionization alarms fail to activate in Australian
Standards testing until more than three times the maximum safe limit set for photoelectric alarms.
FA C T: Legislation to mandate photoelectric smoke alarms has been enacted in Australias Northern Territory and
the U.S. states of Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont and numerous cities and municipalities.
FA C T: The June 2006, official position of all Australian and New Zealand Fire Brigades states, That all
residential accommodation be fitted with photoelectric smoke alarms . . . Ionization smoke alarms may
not operate in time to alert occupants early enough to escape from smoldering fires. (emphasis added)
FA C T: Standards Australia has revised the Australian Smoke Alarm Standard (AS3786-1993). Despite repeated
attempts, the ABCB has refused to adopt it into the Building Code of Australia.
FA C T: Since the 1996 edition of the BCA, photoelectric detectors have been mandated in all Australian hospitals.
FA C T: U.S. Federal court judges declared an ionization smoke alarm to be "defectively designed" and its
failure to be a legal cause of deaths (Sheila Hackert v First Alert Inc. March 2008).
Graham Huxley
Neil Savery
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1. NEOFPA President
Oversees Testing
NEOFPA President
John Desmarteau (left)
with GMAs Gio Benitez
Photoelectric 1: 12 minutes
Photoelectric 2: 13 minutes
Combination 1: 22 minutes
Combination 2: 49 minutes
David Isaac
Chief Fleming
Chief Investigative
Reporter
Australias Leading
Fire Safety Expert
Boston Fire
Department
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
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L egal Precedents
In The Law and You radio
interview, world experts discuss the
Confidentiality Order preventing
disclosure of the level of smoke
ionization alarms activate under
CSIRO testing (see page 14).
Safer For
Fire Fighter s TM
4. Environmental/Disposal Problem
All ionization alarms contain radioactive material.
Myths
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Explain
see page 5
www.TheWFSF.org/radiation
MYTH
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5. Affordability
Combination photoelectric/ionization alarms cost more
than stand-alone photoelectric alarms. Consumers with
limited budgets may not be able to afford to protect as
many rooms in their home with combination alarms as
with stand-alone, photoelectric alarms.
Consumer Groups Speak Out
Cost is one of several reasons that the IAFF, AFAC and
others do not recommend combination ion/photo alarms
(page 12). Australian, U.S. and New Zealand consumer
organizations have discovered the defects with ionization
alarms and recommend photoelectric smoke alarms.
New Zealand
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Its Time to Tell the Public
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Fire Fighters the Truth
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University of Cincinnati Smoke Detector Seminar
College of Engineering & Applied Sciences, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A. | 28 June, 2010
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detectors?
photoelectric detector.
Captain Clayton L. James
William (BJ) Jetter PhD, MIFireE, CFO
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Newport Fire Department
OFE, CHSIII, Fire Chief, Sycamore
Kentucky, USA
EMS & Fire Department, Ohio, USA
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www.TheWFSF.org/uc9
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Conclusion
To provide earliest warning for all fires regardless of type,
combination detectors (of the OR gate principle) are, ideally
speaking, most effective. This assumes that they are fully
operational, and do not have reduced or otherwise altered
sensitivities (Ed Comeau Interview, Appendix A). It must also
be noted that, due to the frequency of nuisance alarms from
current ionization technologies, combination detectors are
likely to be disabled by a consumer, rendering them useless
to warn occupants of any fire.
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www.TheWFSF.org/wpi
Myths
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Explain
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The WFSF thanks Dean Dennis
from Fathers For Fire Safety
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Dean Dennis
for his research material
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Adrian Butler, WFSF Co-Founder at New Zealand
Fire Service Basic Fire Fighter Graduation
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Implementation of AFACs
2006 Smoke Alarm Position
FRNSW does NOT support
the fitting and installation of
i o n i s a t i o n a l a r m s . We O N LY
recommend photoelectric alarms.
FRNSW Commissioner Mullins AFSM
President, AFAC | October 2014
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The International Association of Fire Chiefs warned about ionization smoke alarms in 1980 2 and urged Fire Chiefs to
recommend photoelectric smoke alarms: www.TheWFSF.org/iafc Tragically, its message was buried. Since 2006,
manufacturers and governments have failed to warn the public of the defects inherent in ionization alarms. They now
claim there are two types of fires (smoldering and flaming) so the public needs two types of smoke alarms 3.
By doing this, for legal and political reasons, they do not have to admit they failed to warn the public.
However, there are not two types of fire - there are two stages of a fire. Most fatal fires have a smoldering stage
before bursting into flames. Australian government (CSIRO) test data prove ionization alarms may not operate in time
for occupants to escape from the early, smoldering stage of fatal fires.
Adrian Butler, Chairman, The World Fire Safety Foundation, NSW, Australia, 13 November 2014
1 UTC,
the worlds second largest smoke alarm manufacturer, refused to disclose the level of smoke
its ionization alarms activated under CSIRO testing after numerous letters and a request in
the Parliament of New South Wales Australia by Mr Christopher Gulaptis MP.
2 Most
Fire Departments today are unaware of the decades of misinformation about ionization
alarms and flawed Smoke Alarm Standards. However, as they become aware, a growing
number are taking a stand, e.g. the North Eastern Ohio Fire Prevention Association, the
Ohio Fire Chiefs Association and the Queensland Fire and Emergency Service.
3 The
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Californian Legislature
A ss em b ly R e s o lu ti o n
...ionization smoke detectors, which are
flame detectors and not smoke detectors...
Myths
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24 June, 2014 | Montgomery, Alabama, U.S.A
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Radio interview with Australian and U.S. smoke
alarm experts and record-breaking U.S. law firm:
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...this ionization smoke detector is dangerous and
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people are going to die because of that danger.
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Quote from The Law & You Interview by Labarron Boone, Partner and
Labarron Boone
Shareholder, Beasley Allen Law Firm, Montgomery, AL, USA | 24 June 2014
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www.Vimeo.com/99344355
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Richard Patton FPE
Myths
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Explain
Smoke Alarm
Myths Explained
U.S.A. | Canada
www.TheWFSF.org/firefightersusca
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