Kidde P3010L

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20150818-5341A-1510771. Matched catalog product: Kidde P3010L. Incident: The caller is calling from Pelham Fire Department. They are currently installing these smoke alarms under the Turn Your Attention To Fire Prevention program.

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20150818-AA96A-1510770. Matched catalog product: Kidde P3010L. Incident: The caller is calling from Pelham Fire Department. They are currently installing these smoke alarms under the Turn Your Attention To Fire Prevention program.

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20230905-056A5-2147345357. Severity: No Incident, No Injury. Matched catalog product: Kidde P3010L. Incident: Kidde 10 year smoke alarm Model P3010L is only 1 year old and is going off randomly when there is no smoke. I blew air into it as advised from the manufacturer and this made no difference. It is a fire hazard because it has to be removed in order to sleep.

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20230918-CCE99-2147345151. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Matched catalog product: Kidde P3010L. Incident: Kidde Smoke Detectors model p3010L have failed. These were purchased in January 2018 and supposedly have a 10year battery and warranty. One smoke detector alarmed for no reason (full on alarm, not "end of life", and then failed altogether) The other 3 identical smoke detectors were tested at that time and none worked - completely dead. Kidde customer service agreed to replace them all under warranty, but have heard nothing further for three weeks.

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20150115-4553C-2147436489. Matched catalog product: Kidde P3010L. Incident: Came home to smoke detector going off. Unit hangs above refrigerator. Started smelling and looking for smoke. Other detectors in the house were not going off. Silenced alarm and continued to look for smoke. None found. Detector goes off again after silence timeout. Removed detector from wall and swapped with another unit elsewhere in the house to verify issue with unit. Moved detector outside and still went off again after timeout. Ended up having to tape over detection area to keep it from going off. Did not risk turning unit off permanently as I wasn't sure this would void my warranty. Also looked at some reviews on home depot and amazon. Many others experiencing the same problem, which prompted me to fill this out. My concern is that like stated with may others in the reviews, the cry-wolf of this makes you begin to disregard it, and that should never be the case with a life safety system.

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20150114-568CA-2147436506. Matched catalog product: Kidde P3010L. Incident: The house I am renting came equipped with several Kidde P3010L battery-only smoke alarms. Since we moved in, June 30, 2014, at least 5 of these alarms have gone off. Most of these have gone off when there was no discernible smoke, and nobody was cooking. These alarms are, amazingly, single-use, so when they go off we are left without alarms until they can be replaced. Because of the high failure rate, several rooms in the house have been left unprotected for lengths of time that seem unsafe. I searched online for this model, and saw that many users on Amazon.com have reported similar problems: http://www.amazon.com/Kidde-P3010L-Worry-Free-Photoelectric-Battery/dp/B00FHW7PI6/ref=sr_1_20?s=hi&ie=UTF8&qid=1421273791&sr=1-20&keywords=kidde#customerReviews I also note that a superficially similar model by the same manufacturer was recently recalled: http://www.cpsc.gov/en/Recalls/2014/Kidde-Recalls-Smoke-and-Combination-SmokeCO-Alarms/

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20200817-948CE-2147370415. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Product: Kidde P3010L (Kidde Ten Year Smoke Alarm Model P3010L Living Area). Incident: in December 2019 I purchased and installed four Kidde model P3010L 10 year Living Area smoke alarms. Within three weeks, one of these alarms (date of manufacture 2019, Aug. 20) went off in the middle of the night and would not stop. There was no smoke or fire present. I got out a ladder and took the alarm down and disabled it per the manufacturer's directions. No dirt or insect presence was seen. This unit was returned to Home Depot and replaced. Over the next month, the remaining three original smoke detectors and the replacement detector (manufacture date 2020 Jan 14) all went off during the night, were disabled and returned to Home Depot for replacement. By the end of March, three more of the replacements failed during the night and were disabled. I finally gave up on this product and replaced all four units with Code One model i9070 battery operated smoke alarms. There have been no false alarms from the i9070 smoke alarms in the four months since they were installed. I notified Kidde about the problems with the P3010L alarms and asked for a refund or gift card but their response was that they will replace defective products but they do not give refunds. Why would I want to replace these with more of the same defective product? My concern is that this product is dangerous because it generates many false alarms. It is also dangerous to the consumer when you have to climb a ladder in the middle of the night just to silence the alarm. I have read many product reviews and talked with contractors and it has become very clear that I am not the only one having a problem. Just l