About 328,000 smoke alarms offered nationwide and on-line by the Home Shopping Network — or because it now calls itself, HSN — are being recalled as a result of the merchandise can malfunction and fail to alert customers of a fireplace, posing the chance of smoke inhalation or dying, a federal security company mentioned on Thursday.
Three61, the Palm Harbor, Florida-based firm that imported the alarms, has obtained eight stories of the detectors failing to activate within the presence of smoke, in accordance with a notice posted by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. Further, smoke sensitivity assessments carried out on the alarms by CPSC discovered one didn’t sound when uncovered to smoke.
The recall includes Samurai-branded white-and-silver plastic mini smoke alarms, mannequin quantity SM1, which is indicated on the packaging.
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
Made in China, the alarms have been offered by way of HSN nationwide and on-line from July 2020 by way of November 2024 for between $40 and $50, the discover acknowledged.
Measuring at about 2.5 by 2.5 by 2.5 inches, the mini alarms offered in packs of two or three and got here with lithium-ion batteries, adhesive stickers, screws, mounting plates and an instruction handbook. The phrase “smoke” seems on the entrance of the alarm under a button and “put in on” seems on the again. As talked about, the mannequin quantity is positioned on the product packaging.
People who bought the recalled alarms ought to contact the corporate for a alternative.
To register, write “Recalled” with a everlasting marker on the smoke alarm and submit a photograph of the marked product to the recall web site at www.samuraibrands.com/recall. Consumers are suggested to maintain the recalled smoke alarms put in till receiving the alternative alarm.
