Positi on on Residential Smoke Alarms:

New Zealand

The Position on Residential Smoke Alarms of the New Zealand Fire Service (NZFS),
which applies to all New Zealand homes is . . .

“That ALL residential accommodation be fitted with PHOTOELECTRIC

smoke alarms . . . Ionization smoke alarms may not operate in time
to alert occupants early enough to escape from smouldering fires.”
Australasian Fire and Emergency Service Authorities Council (AFAC) Position on Smoke
Alarms in Residential Accommodationʼ 01 June, 2006, page 3, clause 3. (emphasis added)

There are two types (technologies) of smoke alarms, Ionization and Photoelectric.
Australasian Fire Brigades
Why is the official position of all New Zealand Fire Brigades that ALL homes be
Official Position on Smoke Alarms
fitted with PHOTOELECTRIC (also called ʻopticalʼ) smoke alarms? Published: 01 June, 2006

In February 2006, Standards Australia discovered that over 90% of smoke alarms, whether new or old, battery or
hard-wired, may not activate until “dangerously high” and “totally unacceptable” levels of smoke.1

Standards Australia Ltd has rewritten Australiaʼs flawed Smoke Alarm Standard (AS3786). However, the corrected
Standard has been blocked by the Australian Building Codes Board from adoption into legislation and the truth about the
known and DEADLY defects with ionization smoke alarms continues to be withheld from the public and most fire fighters.

A Special Duty of Care

“Fire safety organisations have a Special Duty of Care and therefore must warn
t he public of the known, life-threatening limitations of ionization smoke alarms.”
Karl Westwell, CEO, The World Fire Safety Foundation, Queensland, Australia
ʻA Special Duty of Careʼ, www.TheWorldFireSafetyFoundation.org/sdc

Smoke Alarm RECALL Ionization Smoke Alarms are DEADLY

The Fire Chiefʼs Challenge “Why havenʼt we been told?”

“It is so stunning and so horrifying and itʼs so hard to “The public (and fire fighters) have been misled into
believe that itʼs something that people just donʼt know.” believing that ionization smoke alarms are safe.”
1 www.TheWorldFireSafetyFoundation.org 2 www.TheWorldFireSafetyFoundation.org/sa

The Smoke Alarm Disclosure Letters

The key to solving the thirty year global ionization smoke alarm fraud

WA R NING ! The Smoke Alarms in Most New Zealand Homes are NOT Safe:
Discover the Facts for Yourself - send YOUR ʻSmoke Alarm Disclosure Letterʼ - TODAY!
The World Fire Safety Foundation can send a ʻDisclosure Letterʼ to your smoke alarm manufacturer on your behalf.
Itʼs free and takes less than five minutes. Discover the truth about the DEADLY ionization smoke alarms in YOUR home.
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PositionOnResidentialSmokeAlarmsNZ_20May11.pdf | Published: 09 May, 2009 - Last Updated: 20 May, 2011

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