WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed.
Name of Product: Kidde Model PI2000 Dual Sensor Smoke Alarms
Units: About 94,000
Manufacturer: Walter Kidde Portable Equipment Inc., of Mebane, N.C.
Hazard: An electrostatic discharge can damage the unit, causing it not to warn consumers of a fire.
Incidents/Injuries: The firm has received two reported incidents of smoke alarm malfunctions involving electrostatic discharge during installation. No injuries have been reported.
Description: This recall involves Kidde dual sensor smoke alarms model PI2000. The alarms can be identified by two buttons, “HUSH” and “PUSH AND HOLD TO TEST WEEKLY,” which are located on the front/center of the alarm. The model number and date code are on the back of the smoke alarm. Only date codes 2008 Aug.01 through 2009 May 04 are included in this recall.
Sold at: Retail, department, and hardware stores and through electrical distributors nationwide from August 2008 through May 2009 for between $30 and $40.
Manufactured in: China
Remedy: Consumers should contact Kidde immediately to receive a free replacement smoke alarm.
Consumer Contact: For additional information, contact Kidde toll-free at (877) 524-2086 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET Monday through Friday, or visit the firm’s Web site at www.kidde.com
Archive for July, 2009
Kidde Recalls Dual Sensor Smoke Alarms; Can Fail to Warn of a Fire
Thursday, July 16th, 2009Fire danger around parched crops could be ‘growing’
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009CBS 42 Reporter: Jason Wheeler
Email: jwheeler@keyetv.com
Instead of bringing in a bountiful harvest, corn farmer Wayne Decker has been tearing up the fields around his Hutto homestead.
Decker hopes the dirt border circling his property will protect his home if the parched crops around him somehow ignite.
Crunchy cornstalks that are ubiquitous in places like Hutto are susceptible to wildfires, and pretty soon the risk could become more pronounced. Experts say the fire danger will actually increase in coming weeks as farmers begin to cull the withered plants, dropping them to the ground, thereby eliminating the rows between the stalks and creating piles of dry tinder that could easily catch fire if a spark is set off during the harvesting process.
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1902 Hutto fire
Saturday, July 11th, 2009Written by Suzanne Haberman Friday, 12 June 2009
A fire alarm rang out over Hutto at about 10 p.m. on a late summer Saturday in 1902. Wind from the southwest lifted embers from the burning frame of C.J. Jackson Restaurant where a gas stove had exploded, sending fiery debris over East Street toward the yard filled with cotton for sale. The exact date of the fire has been lost over time, but the amount of cotton in the yard suggests it occurred after the harvest, between July and September.
In the absence of an organized fire department, Hutto’s residents fought the fire. They filled buckets, pots and tubs — anything capable of holding water. They hand-pumped water from 15-foot wells and poured from cisterns. The women reportedly saved the cotton yard by assembling a bucket brigade and delivering water to the men. A horse team pulling water tanks on wagons made laps from the business district to get water from the Round Bale Gin, three blocks away and on the south side of the International & Great Northern Railroad.
Records show that at the turn of the century, Hutto’s population totaled 563. Access to the I. & G.N. rail and east Williamson County’s fertile soil attracted cotton farmers. By the time of the fire, businesses bordered both sides of East Street, once Hutto’s main thoroughfare.
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