- Author
- 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
- fire alarm systems | false alarms | smoke detectors | 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.