A pregnant woman and her husband are alive today “simply because they had the right kind of smoke detector in their home,” Fire Chief Frank Zugan said. Zugan said the home was fully engulfed when the fire department arrived, three minutes after a call. The family would likely have died had they not been awakened by the photoelectric smoke detector on the first floor. The ionization detector outside the couple’s bedroom door did not go off. Click Click here to read more.
Fire chief believes photoelectric technology saved couple
