Gotham Gadgets: Model KN-COSM-B – Talking Alarm™ by Kidde Highly Recommended by Whom You Know! Have You Updated Your CO and Smoke Alarm this Fall, Manhattan?
Did you know Manhattan: Your CO alarm may begin sounding an end-of-life warning this fall. A New York City ordinance that went into effect in 2004 requires CO alarms in most dwellings, but those alarms now need to be replaced. Millions of Kidde CO alarms will begin beeping to let residents know they’ve reached the end of their useful life. This warning is required by Underwriters Laboratories. Kidde has developed an informative website - NYSafehomes.org - to help answer questions about the end of life warning on all CO alarms. This awareness issue is something you absolutely should pay attention to, and if it is time for you to get a new model, we would suggest the
Model KN-COSM-B – Talking Alarm™
Combination CO and Smoke Alarm
Part # 900-0102 - Battery Operated
What could be more fun and easy to install than a talking alarm!
Simply unwrap the package, install the three batteries in the proper order, and press the test button in the middle! It talks to you and gives you the warning signals that would go into effect should you have a future problem, and then the red light turns green. Mount it on your wall in a smart place close to where you sleep, and you will be all set until this useful life ends. But surely you know we will be writing about Kidde again before that...they have been featured many times because they are the best around when it comes to these alarms!
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Kidde Residential and Commercial will apply its resources to provide safety solutions that protect people and property from the effects of fire and its related hazards. As the world's largest manufacturer of fire safety products, Kidde's mission is to provide solutions that protect people and property from the effects of fire and its related hazards. For more than 90 years, industry leaders, the military, airlines and firefighters have relied on Kidde to deliver superior fire detection and suppression. Consumers will find that same advanced fire safety technology in Kidde's residential and commercial smoke alarms, carbon monoxide alarms, fire extinguishers and other life safety products.
Based in Mebane, NC, Kidde is part of UTC Fire & Security, a leading global supplier of fire safety and security services serving government, industrial, commercial and retail industries with brand names such as Kidde, Chubb and others. UTC Fire & Security is a business unit of United Technologies Corporation (NYSE:UTX) a diversified company that provides high technology products and services to the aerospace and commercial building industries worldwide.