Product
Kidde i12010S
Category
Smart Home Device
Report number
20180524-A1023-2147387758
Ownership age
About 12 months to failure (from purchase date when reported)
Failure type
Fire / ignition
Incident narrative
SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20180524-A1023-2147387758. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Product: Kidde i12010S (Kidde ionization smoke alarm, model i12010S, with mfg date of 2016, Nov. 10. Alarm has 10 year lithium battery backup.). Incident: Reporting on Kidde ionization smoke alarm model i12010S Four of these were installed May 2017. Two have failed, the most recent occurrence 5/24/18. That's a 50% failure rate. In both cases, false reports of fire occurred despite the fact that the alarms have been well maintained by vacuuming and periodic application of canned air as per manufacturer. This is a 10 year Lithium battery backup model as well as being AC powered. In both cases the manufacturing date is 2016 Nov. 10. The house installed in is clean, well ventilated, and the alarms are properly installed following mfg recommendations. Environmentally, Relative Humidity reported by the weather service was at 68% with a house temperature noted at 67 degrees F. I'd like to stress again, a 50% failure rate is absolutely unacceptable for a product designed to provide fire safety!
Official report number: 20180524-A1023-2147387758. Search that ID on SaferProducts.gov or match it in the CPSC public database export to verify this record.