     Keith Golinski, father of Matt Golinski who lost his family in a house fire, was speaking tat the Australian Senate Inquiry into smoke alarms first hearing in Brisbane on the 26th of October 2015.
     He said his son Matt had two working ionization smoke alarms in his home which failed to alert him when he lost his wife and three children in December 2011.

Louie Naumovski, set up the the Logan House Fire Support Network after Australia's worst house fire in Slacks Creek, Brisbane in August 2011 that killed 11 people also spoke at the Inquiry. He said ionization smoke alarms should be banned.

October 2015 - Australian Senate Smoke Alarm Inquiry - Keith Golinski and Louie Naumovski

ABC Interview
World Fire Safety Foundation and Queensland Fire & Rescue Service
May 2005  |  Brisbane Australia
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      In May 2005 the World Fire Safety Foundation (WFSF) and the Queensland Fire & Rescue Service (QFRS) were interviewed on the ABC about legislation mandating photoelectric smoke alarms in new Australian commercial buildings. The WFSF said if it was good enough to install photoelectric alarms in commercial building then they should be mandated in homes where people sleep.
     However, the QFRS (mistakenly) said that the reason photoelectric alarms had been mandated in commercial building was because they did not contain radioactive material. All ionization alarms contain Americium 241 which is radioactive.
     The reason they were mandated was because of the known life-threatening limitations with ionization alarms.
    Eleven months later on June the 1st 2006 the WFSF was vindicated when the Fire Service published an official report which stated:
"That all residential accommodation be fitted with photoelectric smoke alarms . . . Ionization smoke alarms may not operate in time to alert occupants early enough to escape from smouldering fires."
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More:
Fire Brigade Official Position:
www.The WFSF.org/afac
Stop The Children Burning Documentary:
www.TheWFSF.org/stcb


May 2005 - ABC Interview: World Fire Safety Foundation and Queensland Fire & Rescue Service

Where There's Smoke?
by Derryn Hinch | Thursday, 21 October 2010
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This is going to be difficult because I don’t want to alarm people. But alarm is the operative word. I want to talk about smoke alarms. The ones that are installed in millions of houses and apartment around Australia. It seems they may not be safe. The alarms will go off if there are flames. They’ll go off and alert you if there is intense heat but –according to increasing reports from home and abroad – they do not go off when they detect smoke.

And a lot of fire victims are overcome by smoke long before fire reaches them.
 
As I understand it, most fire alarms, electrical or battery, use an ionisation system. These are the most common ones with a small nuclear wqarning sign on them because they use small amounts of radiation.The ones we should be using.

Are photo-electric alarms.
 
They ‘see’ smoke as quickly as the human eye sees smoke.
 
I received an email overnight which said:
 
‘The World Fire Safety Foundation has been fighting a global campaign to ban the type of smoke alarms in almost every New Zealand and Australian home for over ten years - we are making huge progress in the USA - but gross negligence has halted progress here in Australia as well as in New Zealand’.
 
 
Now this is nothing new. I think Ray Martin had something on this on A Current Affair some years ago. But nothing has happened at least not here.
 
It’s happening overseas. The small state in Vermont in the US has now banned the old smoke alarms.  And in the town of Albany, in California a similar ban has now come in.
 
According to the San Francisco Chronicle a similar ban is being considered in nearby Palo Alto. So how safe are the old ones?
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- Story from Hinch's website:
www.HumanHeadline.com.au/Hinch-Says/Where-Theres-Smoke

World Fire Safety Foundation website:
www.TheWFSF.org

October 2010 - Derryn Hinch Interviews World Fire Safety Foundation Chairman Adrian Butler

ABC Radio Interview with Standards Australia committee member, David Isaac and World Fire Safety Foundation (WFSF) Chairman, Adrian Butler 
with Aaron Kearney, ABC Broadcaster, Journalist, Commentator and Broadcast Consultant  |  Newcastle, NSW, Australia
10 October 2006
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04:52  Adrian Butler
"The truth about ionization alarms has been hidden and the truth is they are absolutely dangerous."

05:00 Aaron Kearney, ABC Radio Host
"Why?"

05:01  Adrian Butler
"Because they lull people into a false sense of security. Let me give you a quote from Edward Swartz. He's a trial lawyer from Swartz and Swartz.  Now what he says is this.
'There's something very wrong with selling smoke detectors that don't work, that lull consumers into a false sense of security, and that end up taking the very lives that they were intended to save. If that happens the people responsible should be made to pay."
That was said twenty years ago."

06:15 Aaron, Aaron Kearney, ABC Radio Host
"David Isaac, you are a member of the Australian Standards  committee and on the DVD you say that you have a Duty of Care to bring this to the public attention. Do you really believe that we are all going to sleep with a false sense of security every night? That there is a smoke detector above our head that will save our lives that in fact may not?"

06:36 David Isaac, Standards Australia Committee FP002
"Absolutely I do. So much so that I only have photoelectric alarms fitted in to my own home. The problem that we have with the ionization smoke alarm is that it is very selective in the type of smoke that it senses. And it is very good a detecting flaming fires like candles from a birthday cake or toast that is overheated. But if you have a slow smoldering fire, it starts in electrical equipment in the house or from a cigarette on a couch, that has long smoldering phase that fills the house with toxic smoke an ionization smoke alarm will not respond to that type of smoke. And by the time the fire develops to the flaming stage, when the alarm may or not work, depending on how close it is to the flames, it's often then too late for the occupants to escape."

07:20 Aaron Kearney, ABC Radio Host
"So David if this is true and this battle has its genesis 30 years ago, why are you having to put out DVDs and make public appeals on the radio to get this on the agenda?"
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More:
- WFSF DVD, 'Stop The Children Burning':
www.TheWFSF.org/stcb

- Fire Brigade Official Position of 01 June 2006:
www.TheWFSF.org/afac

- ABC Radio Interview after Australian Senate Smoke Alarm Inquiry:
www.SmokeAlarmWarning.org/csiro.html#r12

October 2006 - ABC Interview with WFSF & David Isaac, Australia's Leading Fire Safety Expert

ABC's Madonna King Interviews WFSF and Queensland Fire & Rescue Service
May 2011
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More:
www.TheWFSF.org/tourstory2

May 2011 - ABC's Madonna King Interviews WFSF and Queensland Fire Service Superintendent Neil Reid

ABC interview with World Fire Safety Chairman Adrian Butler
Issues discussed:
- The Teewantin Tragedy where Sunshine Coast celebrity chef Matt Golinski lost his wife and three children in a home fitted where it was subsequently discovered that it was fitted with two working ionization smoke alarms.
- Melbourne's Box Hill fire station caught fire and the ionization alarms installed in the fire station failed to operate.
- How Vermont U.S.A. became the first state in the U.S. became the first state in the US to mandate photoelectric smoke alarms.
- How the safe egress time has dropped from 17 minutes in the 70s to less than 3 minutes today due to the proliferation of fast burning synthetics in homes thereby increasing the need for effective (i.e. photoelectric)smoke alarms.
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More:
www.SmokeAlarmWarning.org/csiro

January 2012 - ABC WFSF Smoke Alarm Interview  | Box Hill Fire Station Fire  |  Vermont Legisaltion

Why Ionization Smoke Alarms Should Be Banned - Part 1
with U.S. Consumer Advocate, Joe Gagnon, Michigan, USA, and
World Smoke Alarm Expert, Dean Dennis, Cincinnati, Ohio USA.
Aired live  on WAAM TALK 1600 Radio Michigan, USA  |  9 Jan 2016
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There are two main types (technologies) of residential smoke alarms:
- Ionization (in over 90% of homes) and
- Photoelectric.
Both may be either battery or hard-wired with a battery back-up.
In the last week of December 2015 a smoldering fire occurred in the home of Tim Burton from Canton, Michigan. The ionization smoke alarms in his home failed to activate despite the house being filled with smoke.
Burton was unharmed and both he and his brother Todd immediately replaced their existing smoke alarms with new alarms.
However, despite the story being aired on TV no one told Tim that the reason his alarms failed to sound was because they were the ionization type. Ionization smoke alarms are proven to fail in the early, smoldering stage of a fire.
When world smoke alarm expert, Dean Dennis from Cincinnati Ohio discovered the story about Tim's fire he got in touch with Tim. Mr Dennis told Tim that the state of Ohio had just passed legislation (01 Jan 2016) mandating the use of photoelectric smoke alarms.
Dean asked Tim & Todd what type of alarms they had replaced their ionization alarms with.
When he discovered they had installed the same ionization type that had failed to activate weeks earlier Dean decided to try and get the message about the known life-threatening limitations of ionization alarms across Michigan.
After Dean spoke with renowned U.S. Consumer Advocate, 'The Appliance Doctor' Joe Gagnon, Joe was stunned with the story and is working with fire safety campaigners to help bring about photoelectric legislation to protect Michigan residents.
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More - including Part 2:
www.SmokeAlarmWarning.org/joegagnon.html

Why Ionization Smoke Alarms Should Be Banned - Part 1

Why Ionization Smoke Alarms Should Be Banned - Part 2
with U.S. Consumer Advocate, Joe Gagnon, Michigan Ohio, USA and World Fire Safety Foundation Chairman, Adrian Butler, Queensland, Australia
Aired live  on WAAM TALK 1600 Radio Michigan, USA  27 Feb 2016
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There are two main types (technologies) of residential smoke alarms:
- Ionization (in over 90% of homes) and
- Photoelectric.
Both may be either battery or hard-wired with a battery back-up.
In the last week of December 2015 a smoldering fire occurred in the home of Tim Burton from Canton, Michigan. The ionization smoke alarms in his home failed to activate despite the house being filled with smoke.
Burton was unharmed and both he and his brother Todd immediately replaced their existing smoke alarms with a new ones.
However, despite the story being aired on TV no one told Tim that the reason his alarm failed to sound was because it was an ionization alarm. Ionization smoke alarms are proven to fail in the early, smoldering stage of a fire.
Hear World Fire Safety Foundation Chairman, Adrian Butler explain:
1. Why ionization smoke alarms do not work in the early smoldering stager of fires,
2. Why the head of all Australian and New Zealand fire departments warns that ionization smoke alarms should be banned, and
3, Why the International Association of Fire Chiefs warned (in September 1980) that the public should have stand-alone photoelectric alarms, and not combination ionization/photoelectric alarms.
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- More (including Part 1):
www.SmokeAlarmWarning.org/joegagnon.html

- International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) Sept, 1980, 'Residential Smoke Alarm Report' (warning about ionization alarms):
www.TheWFSF.org/iafc

-  International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) Oct 2008 Position:
(The IAFF only recommend photoelectric, not combo ion/photo alarms)
www.TheWFSF.org/iaff

- Australasian Fire & Emergency Service Authorities Council (AFAC) June 2006 Position:
(AFAC only recommends photoelectric,  not combo ion/photo alarms)
www.TheWFSF.org/afac


Why Ionization Smoke Alarms Should Be Banned - Part 2

1 August 2016
ABC interview about the World Fire Safety Foundation's 16 year battle to  have photoelectric smoke alarms mandated in Australia.
More: www.SmokeAlarmWarning.org/ql.html

ABC Interview - Queensland's Photoelectric Smoke Alarm Legislation

The World Fire Safety Foundation (WFSF) was founded in March 2000. Our mission is to save lives by exposing the life-threatening defects with the ionization type of smoke alarm in hundreds of millions of homes around the world and advising of the photoelectric/optical alternatives.
The WFSF believes the scientific test data the Australian government's CSIRO is withholding from the public, without just cause, is the key to banning and recalling ionization smoke alarms and thereby saving thousands of lives globally.
www.SmokeAlarmWarning.org
Note: The Foundation is self-funded and does not solicit or accept donations.


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