SaferProducts incident

Failure type

Fire / ignition

Incident narrative

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20221006-1FE6E-2147353454. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Product: Kiddie P4010ACSCO-W (More than one of my Kiddie wired smoke and carbon monoxide detectors (Model P4010ACSCO-W)). Incident: After having several Kiddie wired smoke and carbon monoxide detectors (Model P4010ACS-W) professionally installed costing me a couple of thousand dollars to my 2744 sq ft home less than 6 months ago, I have had half of these alarms randomly go off and on even several times after canceling the alarms to confirm no threat was present. I have had to call the fire department who even they struggled to silence the alarm and only did so after permanently deactivating it. I find this to be a serious threat to my children's safety and my own. Each one of my household members have sensory processing disorder associated with being autistic,one member has PTSD and other an anxiety disorder. Each time these alarms fault causing my entire household significant distress and scared my 4 year old so bad when the alarm by our stairs went off as we were going up the stairs and she would have fallen down the stairs had I not been behind her to catch her. No physical injuries resulted from any of the 5 occurences that we have experienced with these kiddie alarms. One of the occurrences happened as a result of me blowing of some minor dust from hanging a picture near the device's alarm. I believe we are risk and that this product is dangerous because these detectors are marketed to warn it's consumors when faced with an applicable threat. At this point I have zero confidence in these alarms because if they randomly go off what's to say that these will be effective