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Official U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission consumer incident report from the SaferProducts.gov public database. Use the verification links below to confirm the record on SaferProducts.gov or via the public database export.

Product

Kidde KN-COSM-IBA

Category

Smart Home Device

Report number

20150601-38C94-2147432478

Ownership age

About 13 months to failure (from purchase date when reported)

Failure type

Fire / ignition

Incident narrative

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20150601-38C94-2147432478. Severity: Unspecified. Matched catalog product: Kidde KN-COSM-IBA. Incident: After a power failure of 2 - 4 minutes, power (120 volts) came back on and the alarm went off. FIRE, FIRE Verbal alarm and audible BEEP. No smoke present, no fire had occurred and I could not silence alarm. I disconnected alarm from 120 volt source, at which time Alarm stopped. This alarm (Kidde Combo Smoke/CO Alarm #: KN-COSM-IBA) has a battery backup.

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Official report number: 20150601-38C94-2147432478. Search that ID on SaferProducts.gov or match it in the CPSC public database export to verify this record.