Recalls involving smoke alarms, carbon monoxide detectors, fire extinguishers, and other home fire-safety equipment.
Bosch Security Systems
Hazard: On all systems, when the alarm verification feature of the system is turned on, the control panel can fail to sound an alarm if a fire occurs. In addition, on systems with 50 or more reporting stations, a delay in sounding an alarm and reporting a fire may occur if the loop for the alarm system is broken.
Sensor System
Hazard: When the CO detectors reach the end of their useful life, they should send a signal to make a sound in the home alarm panel alerting consumers it is time to replace them and a signal to ADT's alarm monitoring center. Some of the detectors were not wired properly to the ADT alarm system, resulting in the sound not going off in the home alarm panel and no signal to the ADT alarm monitoring center at the end of its useful life. Not replacing a CO detector at the end its useful life poses a CO poisoning hazard to consumers.
Tyco Safety Products Westminster
Hazard: The recalled fire alarm control panels can fail to send a signal to alert monitoring centers in the event of a fire.
Fire-Lite Alarms
Hazard: The recalled fire alarm control panels used with an SLC-2LS expander module can fail to sound an alarm in the event of a fire.
Walter Kidde Portable Equipment
Hazard: An electrostatic discharge can damage the unit, causing it not to warn consumers of a fire.
Walter Kidde Portable Equipment
Hazard: The pressurized cylinders in the recalled fire extinguishers could lose pressure and fail to operate. In the event of a fire, this failure could put a consumer and property at risk.
Maple Chase
Hazard: The recalled alarms can sound a "double chirp"/fault alarm in the presence of CO, prior to going into full alarm. Upon hearing a double chirp, the Owner's Manual instructions recommend a consumer take the alarm out of service, which could expose consumers to hazardous levels of CO and suffer injury or death.
Digital Security Controls
Hazard: These smoke detectors could fail to reliably detect smoke during a fire.
Ansul
Hazard: If the fire extinguisher is dropped horizontally from a height of approximately 2 to 3 feet, the pick-up tube could crack at the threads between the pick-up tube adaptor and the stainless steel tube. If a pick-up tube is cracked, the extinguisher can fail to discharge properly when activated, which can put users at risk during a fire.
BRK Brands
Hazard: These alarms can drain the power from batteries rapidly, causing premature low battery power. Consumers will be alerted to the low battery power and the need to replace the battery by a chirping of the unit. If the batteries on the smoke/CO alarm are not replaced before the battery power terminates, the alarm will not detect smoke in the event of a possible fire and the presence of carbon monoxide.
GE Security
Hazard: The smoke alarms can fail to activate during a fire or emergency, if installed in combination with certain control panels.
GE Security, Inc., (GE Security)
Hazard: The recalled units fail to detect carbon monoxide after 1 year of operation, due to an internal software error. These CO alarms do not provide an "end of life" signal or other indication of inoperability, even if the test button is depressed.