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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

First Alert SC5

Category

Smart Home Device

Report number

20260818-56BFF-2147312240

Ownership age

About 4 months to failure (from purchase date when reported)

Failure type

Fire / ignition

Incident narrative

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20260818-56BFF-2147312240. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Matched catalog product: First Alert SC5. Incident: I have 9 First Alert Smoke detectors that have been installed new for about 3 months. Two of the devices have caused false alarms in the past two days. One false alarm on August 16 2026 which would not clear and caused a fire emergency response by Arlington County Fire department. The second false alarm was today from a separate unit that I was able to clear. This is no acceptable function from a family safety product.

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Official report number: 20260818-56BFF-2147312240. Search that ID on SaferProducts.gov or match it in the CPSC public database export to verify this record.