Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Properly installed smoke detectors are often the first line of defense against a house fire, keeping the homeowner informed and ...

During testing, the First Alert smoke detector was slightly slower to respond to smoke than the pricier models we tested. It took about 20 seconds to sound an alarm once we released our test smoke.

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If you’ve bought a smoke alarm from Amazon recently, you may want to double-check that it actually meets U.S. safety standards. The Wirecutter recently uncovered that several of the best-selling smoke ...