Where should you place smoke detectors:

- Install smoke alarms on every level of your home

- Install one outside every separate sleeping area, new homes should have one inside every sleeping room

- Don’t install them near windows, doors, or ducts where drafts might interfere with their operation

Smoke Detector Safety Tips:

- Test your smoke alarms once a month

- Replace the batteries in your smoke alarm once a year

- Never “borrow” a battery from a smoke alarm

- Don’t disable smoke alarms even temporarily

For more tips, go here on nfpa.org

National Fire Professionals Association statement on smoke detectors:

Ionization smoke detection is generally more responsive to flaming fires and photoelectric smoke detection is generally more responsive to smoldering fires.

Both types of technologies have improved home fire safety. NFPA recommends both types of detection be installed in homes

Click here for National Fire Professionals Association Study (pdf file)

Links to Study done by National Institute of Standards and Technology:

Home Smoke Alarm Tests