- Author
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Moore, W. D.
- Title
- Fire Alarm Systems "Crying Wolf".
- Coporate
- Mass Fire Alarms of New England, Lowell, MA
- Book or Conf
- Society of Fire Protection Engineers. Fire Detection and Suppression...Today's Technology. March 9-11, 1987,
Linthicum Heights, MD,
1-9 p.,
1987
- Keywords
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fire alarm systems
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false alarms
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smoke detectors
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sensitivity
- Abstract
- False alarms, primarily from smoke detectors, play a major role in decreasing the credibility of a fire alarm system and their psychological impact may well be the most vulnerable link in our early warning systems as installed today.