Advice for dealing with nuisance alarms

By Richard Geerdink

To The Haldimand Press

HALDIMAND—Sometimes smoke from a toaster, an open oven door, or even steam from a shower can cause a smoke alarm to activate. This is referred to as a nuisance alarm. To stop the annoying sound, people often remove the battery or disconnect the power source and forget to reconnect it.

Disabling the smoke alarm means if a fire were to occur at a later date, the smoke alarm would not sound and the occupants may not have the time they need to safely escape. Every year, people die in fires in homes without working smoke alarms.