False Alarms

An engineer, who prefers to remain anonymous, believes the frequency of false smoke alarms in cargo compartments is scandalous, and stems in large measure from the regulatory need for an alarm to trigger within one minute (see ASW, July 4). "Time is not important in a warning system," he writes...

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