Randy Vezina, the Fire Prevention Officer with the North Bay Fire Department alerted us to this issue.
Health Canada is issuing a recall on a smoke detector that sold 112,000 units in this country.
Should a power outage occur at the same second that the device is performing a once-per-minute sensor health check, the device may go into a “latched” mode, causing it not to alarm in the presence of smoke and/or carbon monoxide.
An affected device will sound if it receives a signal from an alarm in the same interconnected system.
Once power is restored, a latched device will sound an alarm regardless of the presence of smoke and/or carbon monoxide.
Check details of the recall here:
http://healthycanadians.gc.ca/recall-alert-rappel-avis/hc-sc/2014/41109r-eng.php
