Parent Voice Alarm Superior To Residential Tone Smoke Alarm At Awakening Children

... Approximately half of residential fire deaths occur at night, when victims are asleep. Even in daytime fires, many deaths occur as a result of the victim being asleep at the time of the emergency. Conventional residential tone smoke alarms fail to awaken the majority of children 6- to 12-years-old during stage 4 sleep. [click link for full article] ...