Man goes back for dog.
The article was published in the Journal of Applied Fire Science. The Journal is a refereed publication of international scope presenting current thought and research leading to practical solutions to fire protection. The process of utilizing data from various studies, integrated into one risk analysis , provides an evaluation tool to determine the probability of success or failure of a fire detector to alarm with normal installation and maintenance in a residential structure. This process permits the incorporation of actual influences such as lack of cleaning, age of detector, power disconnected because of a nuisance alarm and contact corrosion to be considered with the demonstrated real scale performance of the fire detectors in controlled fire test. The outcome of this consideration of data resulted in the development of a realistic risk analysis for the performance of fire detectors for various scenarios.