Sunday, May 23, 2010

Low Tone Fire Alarm

The Galesburg, Illinois fire department says strobe lights are not effective when it comes to smoke alarms for the deaf. Captain Dan Foley says strobes fail to wake up nearly half of users who are deaf. Foley recommends an alarm with the low frequency in the 520 Hz range such as the Lifetone alarm. Rather than detecting smoke, this detector detects other detectors.