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Product

Kidde KN-COSM-IBA

Category

Smart Home Device

Report number

20150420-FC71C-2147433574

Ownership age

About 10 months to failure (from purchase date when reported)

Failure type

Overheating

Incident narrative

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20150420-FC71C-2147433574. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Matched catalog product: Kidde KN-COSM-IBA. Source model text: KN-COSM-IBA (21006377). Incident: We had a circuit breaker trip. Upon resetting the circuit breaker, the alarms, both combinations smoke/CO alarms, and the smoke alarms (6 total) went off, and would not shut off. I had to physically remove all 6 alarms from the electrical connections to get them to stop.

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Official report number: 20150420-FC71C-2147433574. Search that ID on SaferProducts.gov or match it in the CPSC public database export to verify this record.