Smoke detector often triggers false fire alarms, Buffalo NY
Fire & ArsonSmoke detectors in an apartment building are frequently triggered by cooking smoke, causing fire alarms and fire department responses. The kitchen heat sensor is very sensitive, and false alarms require fire department visits to reset. These alarms can affect an entire floor and cause smoke doors to close.
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If the bad hamburger, because if you cook it on top of the stove, it sets the smoke detector off, and then the only way to give them shut off again is the fire department had to show up, so then you have to cook all your meat in the oven, and a hamburger in the oven just don't taste the same.
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Why, you've got a smoke detector in the kitchen?
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We have an oven hood and an exhaust fan, we don't.
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is triggered as the one in the bedroom. The one in the kitchen is just a heat sensor,
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and they're very sensitive.
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You can't fan them away with a newspaper.
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The fire department has to come out,
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and they have to come to your apartment first, make sure everything's okay, and then they'll go and shut the whole thing up. But you can't wave the smoke away. You can't take the detector down.
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Got to close the bedroom door. I remember when I was an R.A. at Canisius, kids will always have stuff off in the ovens and things. Sometimes girls set off the alarm.
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(name withheld), she had her weave in the microwave, and I guess that started smoking.
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One way to dry it out.
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Probably because they're going to want to make it go off. You know, after I've had the fire department here four times, you want to start cooking everything in the oven.
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That's when I first moved in here, though, seven years ago.
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Yeah, setting the fire alarm off.
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Well, does it set it off for the entire building, like to all the neighbors here?
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Your whole floor will.
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It's really bad all the smoke doors in the hallways will slam shut on every floor.
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Usually though it's just, the alarm's pretty loud just in your apartment. I have to get out of the apartment when the alarm went off.
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Near Main St, Buffalo, NY 14208
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