Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

We purchased six of these alarms in December. Since then, two of them have malfunctioned - in both cases, due to steam or humidity, and in the most recent case, at 1:30am when my children were fast asleep. Picture, if you will, a frantic mother and her children standing on the sidewalk in our PJs in 32F weather - no shoes, no coat, because we are teaching the toddlers to GET OUT OF THE HOUSE and nuance will have to come later - while the children shriek with fear because they were sound asleep and they've just been hauled out of their beds. Their Dad waits to see if the alarms are blaring for carbon monoxide or fire, and on determining that it's probably yet another false fire alarm, starts checking the house - while the kids scream that they want to go back inside, it's freezing cold. This is only the most recent false alarm. And the problem with false alarms is that it teaches people to IGNORE THEM - or unplug their fire alarms. And that's how people die in fires. These smoke alarms are no longer just mediocre - they are actively bad, because they are teaching my children to ignore smoke alarms, that they are a nuisance and a problem, not a life-saving device.