Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I love this little smoke alarm. I am always very protective about having working smoke alarms in the house anyway, but recently we had a house fire very near to us. Our neighbor's hot water heater malfunctioned in the middle of the night. Her house caught fire, she didn't have a working smoke alarm, and she had three dogs. One of them didn't make it out. She was very fortunate to make it out for that matter. Our regular smoke alarms are too high for me to reach on a regular basis, but I wanted one to do regular fire drills (we did them when our kids were at home), but now we just have two dogs and I wanted them to be used to knowing what to do if the alarms sounded - how to get out and away from the house instead of hiding under a bed (our neighbor lady's dog hid under the bed during the fire). My husband mounted this alarm where I can reach it easily and I do drills a couple times a week. Now whenever the dogs hear it they run outside to the far gate (they know they will get a treat), but if there ever is a fire they will also run outside and not be burned up! This little alarm is loud and works well. One day when I was cooking in the kitchen and my pan got too hot before I had the next french toast to go in, the alarm went off before the others in the house (and my two dogs went running out to the far gate! - I had to turn off the stove and go get the treats, LOL!).