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Smoke Detector Facts
Here are some interesting smoke detector facts:
At the end of 10 years, a smoke detector has gone through over 3.5 million monitoring cycles.
Out of 96 million American households, 11 million have no working smoke detectors.
Smoke alarms often fail because of missing, dead or disconnected batteries.
Each year in the U.S. more than 3000 people die from fire.
The death rate in homes are 45% lower when one working smoke detector is present.
33% of the smoke detectors are out of date meaning that they are over 10 years old.
Photoelectric smoke detectors are great for kitchens, because they are not easily triggered by normal cooking smoke.
Some fire departments offer smoke alarms for little or no cost.
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